Robots are stealing human jobs: in factories, in the military, and now on the catwalk
Posted 05.12.2009 at 10:00 am
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Does the world need another waifish fashion model who can make a limited number of facial expressions and whose main skill in life is walking jerkily down a catwalk? If you are the Japanese robotics industry, the answer is yes. HRP-4C, the world's first robot supermodel, recently made its debut on the catwalk at Tokyo Fashion Week.
Weighing in at 95 pounds and just topping 5 feet, the diminutive model has only 30 motors in its body to help it walk -- it literally stomped its way down the fashion runway in a noisy clatter of machine parts. Designed to look like an average Japanese woman in her 20s, HRP-4C has a comely woman-like head atop a Stormtrooper-like body of metal plates and black joints.
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Science, Robot of the Week, Val Wang, clothing, fashion, fashionbot, japan, robotics, robots, supermodelsIf you would like your own HRP-4C, stripped of its face and other coverings, but including the programming technology that will allow you to make your dreams a reality, it will set you back around $200,000.
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the world need another waifish fashion model who can make a limited number of facial expressions and whose main skill in life is walking jerkily down a catwalk. frases
In all honesty, I would pay good money to see companies show off their robotic inventions, maybe not in a fashion show per se, but some kind of trade show. Does anyone know of any established robotics trade shows out there? suppose I could google it. Anyhow, robots on the catwalk is an improvement, more personality up there, me thinks.
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~ Incredible how Our Intelligence in Technology has flourished so Rapidly in a Couple Generations. People are lined up to critique this Statue. In these Few Years this was Engineered. Imagine in a couple Decades when all of the existing components are micronized beyond visual recognition. I say $200K for that is a Deal. Ill use it in my band as a stage icon and have it repeat a series of simple process's like timed vocals or simple walking around giving a gesture. Excellent.
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