Robot Dancer

ROBOT • DANCE • JAPAN

Last weekend in Tokyo hosted an exhibition of digital technologies "Digital Content Expo".Before the visitors to the exhibition in the company of four girl dancer performed on female android HRP-4C. This robot was created as an electronic model to demonstrate clothes on the catwalk, but eventually elektrodevushka sang, and now began to dance ...

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1) The robot dancer HRP-4C - development of scientists from the Japanese National Institute of Japan Science and Technology, AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology).

2) First the Japanese introduced this model in March of this year - a new robot has been announced as the first android-fitting. Then HRP-4C debuted during Japan Fashion Week, and although not involved in the show, but opened this holiday fashion.

3) In the summer of HRP-4C made during a fashion show in Tokyo, reaching the podium in a wedding dress designer Yumi Katsura.

4) Experts from AIST continue to improve their creation and pretty soon ... singing robot.

5) Now girl android is not only able to synthesize sound, simulating the human voice, but also facial expressions and movements to accompany his singing.

6) The next step was teaching dance, which was implemented with the help of animation package Chorenoid (combination of Choreography and Humanoid). This software to generate motions uses the same principle as traditional programs for three-dimensional graphics - the user specifies the key position of the object, and the program calculates the interpolation between them.

7) HRP-4C body 30 is equipped with a motor, yet little motors 8 are built in the robot's head model. Thanks to them, the robot can express different emotions. Height HRP-4C 158 cm, weight - 43 kg (including battery). This - the averages parameters normal Japanese women.

8) In the future plan to use android on similar presentation and entertainment events, as well as "human simulator" and "human simulator."

9) In the future, robots such models will go on sale and their approximate cost will be about 3 million U.S. dollars.

10) The development of robotic androids humanity takes only a decade and has already made ​​significant progress in it. Who knows, it is quite possible that after another decade androids animators will work or do massage at home .