Not what you think of when you talk robots

Robert · Dec 22, 2016

But I have hired workers to do jobs like these. The machines take over the job of the man. Here you have a man loading the machine. But it gets even more automatic than that. Even the Chinese can't beat this.

This is the future. This is the right now.

[video=youtube;fma_wuE9dx4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fma_wuE9dx4[/video]

Injeun · Dec 25, 2016

Does it clean itself too?

waltky · Jan 18, 2018

Uncle Ferd says, "Lookit, dat robot got him eatin' outta her hand...

Lifelike Robots Made in Hong Kong Meant to Win Over Humans
January 16, 2018 — David Hanson envisions a future in which robots powered by artificial intelligence evolve to become "super-intelligent genius machines" that might help solve some of mankind's most challenging problems.

If only it were as simple as that. The Texas-born former sculptor at Walt Disney Imagineering and his Hong Kong-based startup Hanson Robotics are combining AI with southern China's expertise in toy design, electronics and manufacturing to craft humanoid "social robots" with faces designed to be lifelike and appealing enough to win trust from humans who interact with them. Hanson, 49, is perhaps best known as the creator of Sophia, a talk show-going robot partly modeled on Audrey Hepburn that he calls his "masterpiece." Akin to an animated mannequin, she seems as much a product of his background in theatrics as an example of advanced technology.

'Is it weird?'

"You're talking to me right now, which is very 'Blade Runner,' no?" Sophia said during a recent visit to Hanson Robotics' headquarters in a suburban Hong Kong science park, its home since shortly after Hanson relocated here in 2013. "Do you ever look around you and think, 'Wow, I'm living in a real-world science fiction novel'?" she asked. "Is it weird to be talking to a robot right now?" Hanson Robotics has made about a dozen copies of Sophia, who like any human is a work in progress. A multinational team of scientists and engineers are fine-tuning her appearance and the algorithms that enable her to smile, blink and refine her understanding and communication.

David Hanson, the founder of Hanson Robotics, poses with his company's flagship robot, Sophia, a lifelike robot powered by artificial intelligence, in Hong Kong

Sophia has moving 3-D-printed arms and, with the help of a South Korean robotics company, she's now going mobile. Shuffling slowly on boxy black legs, Sophia made her walking debut in Las Vegas last week at the CES electronics trade show. Her skin is made of a nanotech material that Hanson invented and dubbed "Frubber," short for flesh-rubber, that has a fleshlike, bouncy texture. Cameras in her eyes and a 3-D sensor in her chest help her to "see," while the processor that serves as her brain combines facial and speech recognition, natural language processing, speech synthesis and a motion control system.

Sophia's predecessors
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