Who's the fakes?
She smiles and appears to breathe. Repliee Q1, an android An open platform for cellphones from the Open Handset Alliance (OHA). Based on Linux, Android includes a library of Java classes for building mobile applications.
Android and GPhone , has been called the world's most humanlike robot.
When someone touches Repliee's "skin," sensors - Thermocouple
- RTD - Resistance Temperature Detector or Resistance thermometer or Pt100
- Microphone
- Hydrophones
- Seismometers
- Photoresistor
- Phototransistor
- Infrared thermometer
- Multi-User Multimodal Tabletop Interaction
- Cationic Sensor
send signals to an attached computer. A special software program, which directs the computer's functioning, analyzes these signals. Then, the computer instructs 42 mechanical devices, or actuators, inside the robot to generate a humanlike response. For example, these motion-making devices may direct Repliee to turn and stare right at you, says creator Hiroshi Ishiguru, an engineering professor at Osaka University Home to many elite and renowned alumni of CEOs, lawyers, doctors, scientists, bureaucrats, and a Nobel laureate, as well as to many advanced research centers, Osaka University is considered one of the most prestigious universities in Japan and Asia. in Japan.
But the android can't fool people for long. Repliee can't walk and has limited facial expressions facial expression,
n the use of the facial muscles to communicate or to convey mood. .
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