Over the years, the Japanese have always tried to create a humanoid robot, and currently they are getting close. In this article, I will share some videos showing a bit about the advancement of robotics in Japan.
We will focus only on Androids (robots with human appearances). We will notice several videos showing a bit of how the Androids were presented and how their technology has advanced, in terms of speech and movement.
It is worth remembering that one of the ways to designate a robot in the female form is actually ginoid.
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A robot to train dentists!
The Showa University created Showa Hanako, to help dental graduates to train in their profession.
Talking robots
It was a great advance in 2010 when talking robots were presented, although with a huge limitation. The video shows a bit of the presentation; you should know English or Japanese to understand.
Robot that imitates movements
Report and interview with two robots
Asuna
Asuna is a robot with more human-like movements, which was presented in 2014 and 2015, showing a great advancement in robotics. Although it is still not fully realistic, and sometimes even scary, we can notice in the dialogue below, her ability to answer questions easily and even make informal confirmations…
In the dialogue, the Japanese asks her name, she responds and even states her age. When the Japanese says: 18 years? She confirms: “juugosai Dayo” which caught my attention.
She was also presented at a fair in February 2015 a little differently.
We see that her appearance resembles a persocon that is part of an anime chobits.
Robot that sings and dances
The female robot HRP-4C presented in the videos below is capable of singing and dancing.
In this way, soon the vocaloids come to life.
These were some videos I found to give an idea of how the advancement of Androids is in Japan. What do you think? Will it still take a while for them to build a more human-like robot?
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