Humanoid Robot Become a Catwalk Model
by cheesy on Mar.18, 2009, under Technology

Robot technology is increasing rapidly. On exhibition held in the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tokyo on March 16th, now robot starts able to compete with the beautiful model. The engineer leading universities in Japan demonstrates the robot model that named HRP-4C.
This type humanoid robot has a girlie face and large eyes. With a small nose and hair to it shoulder, HRP-4C can be programmed to do 42 usual style like what the model set out clothes on the stage. In fact, not only clever walking on catwalk, this robot appearance that looks alike with the characters in the Japanese comic (manga) is also friendly to anyone who greets her. “Hello everybody, I am human Cybernetic HRP-4C,” I HRP-4C with the tuneful and intimate voice.
Research leader of the fashion-bot or robot fashion that recognized by Shuji Kajita, deliberately not making the team look HRP-4C is similar to the native people. “Therefore, we make her body look like cans. We tend to follow the style of anime,” he said. Fashion boots-HRP-4C has a 158 cm high, high average Japanese women aged 19-29 years. Weight is also quite lightweight, only 43 kg including batteries.
According to Shuji Kajita, HRP-4C was made for entertainment industry. However, on the first day of exhibition, the robot get a lot of click amazed spectators. Preview robots will continue in the fashion presentation in Tokyo on March 23. In the meantime, the robot HRP-4C was not sold. However, if you want to have it, you can predict the price for it because the cost of research already spent about USD 240,000
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