Posted 11.08.2011 at 2:50 pm
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TELESAR V
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Keio University researchers are taking telepresence to the next logical level with a new “telexistence” robot called TELESAR V, a robotic platform that doesn’t just transport the user's eyes to another location, but also his or her ears and hands as well. The idea is to break through the limitations of time and space to allow a user to actually feel like he or she is present elsewhere via a remotely operated robot that returns three sensory stimuli back to the user.
Using a head-mounted 3-D visual display, an audio system that streams sound to the user, and tactile gloves that allow the user to feel the shapes and temperatures of objects--currently the robots force vector and temp sensors can accurately relay textures as fine as the unevenness on the surface of a Lego block--the user can manipulate the robot remotely and feel what the robot feels. The designers are looking for a true avatar sensation, one that makes the user really feel that he or she is inhabiting the place of the robot.
This certainly isn’t the first time we’ve seen or heard of this kind of concept, but it is one of the first all around implementations of so much telepresence technology in a single package that--by all appearances--seems to work really well. And there’s no need to take our word for it; see TELESAR V in action below.
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Sex Simulators here we come...
It's the beginning of Surrogates!
Yes!! just like avatar and surrogates.
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I wonder if V2 will have the robot with irises and mobile eyes. It would increase immersion as the person looks around with a stasis head, while also creating better immersion with those at the robot's end who see the robot looking around.
yeah. I am sorry. I live in Japan, and one thing I have noticed is that every single innovation that japan has made is becuase they are either openly or secretly the worlds largest perverts.
"to allow a user to actually feel like he or she is present elsewhere via a remotely operated robot"
just in case, which is often the case, people can not tell... I am joking..... sort of
It will just be matter of time, until we have the pornographic anime robot.
The funny things are Japan can sell a ka-zillion of these to China as they are being dominated by males.
*sigh* Once again, someone else did something I thought of before I was able to make it reality...
@inaka_rob: Heh...I hear you there. Japan is one of the biggest manufacturers and buyers of ultra-realistic sex dolls, which could basically fit overtop one of these. And wasn't there a development a while ago, possibly here, about some group that made an artificial tentacle? I don't remember if they were Japanese, but it wouldn't surprise me.
@Onihikage: I dont know why you need by be sad, unless you have millions of dollars and a team of engineers you wouldn't ever be able to make this idea into reality yourself.
I also have thought of this idea since 2009. Imagining what it would be like to have a robot that would look like a human, but be controlled by another human somewhere else who can see/hear what the robot see's and hears. Then the robot would act/look just like a human, which would blow people's mind.
I know that Robot, she is so cool! ;)
Soon...
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