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Unique Japanese robot's facial expressions mimic humans

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The Japanese have taken another step toward making eerily 
human-like androids by creating one with a neural network that breathes 
life into the robot’s facial muscles, making them react to outside 
stimuli with the aid of a central pattern generator.

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The robot, named Alter, 
will be freaking visitors out at the National Science Museum in Tokyo 
soon, in an exhibit lasting a week.<br />
The CPG’s neural network 
replicates neuron activity, allowing the android to mimic human movement
 patterns by way of its sensors, which respond to temperature, proximity
 and humidity. While there’s still work to be done to make the thing 
more humanlike, Engadget says you get peculiar feeling the robot is 
alive when facing it directly and observing the face at work.<br />
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point of the project was not to move closer to mimicking humans, but to 
enable robots to ‘control’ their movements and twitches on their own. 
Researchers from Tokyo University and Osaka University are referring to 
this human looseness as<em> “chaos”.</em><br />
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And it’s not just about Alter’s face: his head and arms will also 
respond to the stimuli. The machine will have a switch offering the 
opportunity to switch from more conventional ones to <em>“chaos”</em> 
mode. But it won’t be up to the human to activate it. Alter will decide 
for itself when to don the human mask when its sensors react to 
environmental readings.<br />
The researchers tried to attach particular
 movements to particular situations and circumstances that might produce
 the movement in the world of human interaction.<br />
Alter can already
 sing, but at the moment, the robot tends to freak people out with its 
sine-wave melody. Researchers are working on new models, presumably with
 better sound chips.<br />
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The most interesting part about Alter remains the CPG, as it mimics how the neural network behaves in a sort of <em>“spike and burst behavior”</em>, as the Japanese scientists refer to it.<br />
This
 means that when a stimulus creates a signal spike in the neuron, it 
creates a chain reaction with other neurons. This is something Professor
 Ikeue calls <em>“coupled pendulums”</em> – due to the way the chain 
reaction takes place in a rhythmical fashion, although Alter’s movements
 are anything but that, resembling rather his own signature type of 
movement.<br />
Osaka University’s Professor Kouhei Ogawa, who also 
carried out previous work on humanoid robots with the Ishuguro lab, says
 that this time around,<em> “Alter doesn’t look like a human. It doesn't really move like human. However, it certainly has a presence.”</em><br />
He
 believes the special thing about Alter is its ability to interact 
without having painstaking pre-determined programming work from 
engineers. <em>“Alter, moving for itself, can do so easily.”</em><br />
Japan’s
 love affair with androids has produced a wealth of ideas that have 
firmly placed the country at the top of robotic innovations.<br />
The 
country is due to have its own robot Olympics in just a few years, 
following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s countrywide vision for the future.<br />
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A Chinese tycoon opted for an unusual entourage, taking eight “female” 
humanoid robots clad in yellow and red uniforms with him on a shopping 
spree. The man was seen purchasing luxury goods encircled by the silent 
but servile helpers.

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The money-bag, who reportedly is the boss of the company that 
produces these robots, was photographed on April 15 in the southern 
Chinese city of Guangzhou as he undertook an outing to a mall to buy 
some rich man’s ‘essentials’, such as gold jewelry and other luxury 
products, local media reported.<br />
The helpers automatically followed their <em>“master,</em>” some of which carried his purchases while others looked after his coat and water bottles, all to the amazement of onlookers.<br />
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His epic stroll made headlines in China, where some media 
outlets chastised the big shot for being vulgar and ill-cultured, 
labelling him a “Tu Hao” – a term used in China to describe a  rich 
person showing off their often sudden wealth.<br />
The man of fortune, 
who was apparently pleased with the attention drawn to his extravagant 
ways, continued his adventures the next day. On 16 April, he took his 
green-eyed trouble-proof companions to the Wanda theme park, where he 
introduced the “girls” to the giant Optimus Prime statue from 
Transformers, the International Business Times reported.<br />
However, not everybody was enthusiastic about the opulent display of wealth.<br />
<em>“My
 goodness! Walking around with ‘Robot Maids?’ Certainly not my cup of 
tea! What’s so big deal about it? Worst of all...robot maids holding 
water and towel for him. He’s not retarded, is he?”</em> wrote Facebook user Han Yin Tan in commenting on Chung’s behavior.<br />
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 there’s still a long way to go before artificial intelligence replaces 
humans, as a recent experiment employing robots as waiters has shown.<br />
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<em>“The robots weren’t able to carry soup or other food steady and 
they would frequently break down. The boss has decided never to use them
 again,”</em> said an employee of a local Guangzhou restaurant that 
resorted to using robotic waitressing services, as cited by 
Shanghailist.com.<br />
<em>“The robots can attract plenty of customers, but they definitely can’t reduce the need for human labor,”</em> another human employee concluded.<br />
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Unique Japanese robot's facial expressions mimic humans

Jia Jia, the creepily life-like 'robot goddess'

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<span style="font-size: small;">The female robot has been called a 'robot 
goddess' by her hoards of online fans, and some who met her at a recent 
exhibition were taken aback by her lifelike appearance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Jia Jia 
stood near the entrance of the exhibition hall that hosted this year's 
2016 Summer Davos Forum in Tianjin, in a major port city in North China.</span><br />
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 was dressed in a traditional Chinese outfit, hairstyle, complete with a
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The robot immediately caught the 
attention of passers-by from China and abroad. But what truly impressed 
was not only how lifelike she is, but also how smart she is. Her 
'brain', which is essentially a huge online database, is connected to a 
cloud computing platform that allows her to enhance her ability to 
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">This
 life-like cyborg is the brain child of Chen Xiaoping and his colleagues
 at the University of Science and Technology of China, who unveiled the 
technology today in Hefei, capital of east China's Anhui Province.</span></div>
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process emotions and speech as new data is uploaded. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Jia Jia can hold conversations with those who ask her questions and respond in less than a second.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Reports said she is also able to make micro-expressions and recognise the facial expressions of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">She
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">According
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technologies, with China accounting for more than 25 per cent of global 
industrial robot sales in 2015 -  62,000 of 248,000 units sold worldwide
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<span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Kejia reached a historical mark 8,555 points by showing off its skills of neatly lining up drinks.</span></div>
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people,' Xiaoping explained.</span></div>
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Jia Jia, the creepily life-like 'robot goddess'

Jia Jia, a humanoid robot The female robot has been called a 'robot goddess' by her hoards of online fans, and some who met ...

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Unique Japanese robot's facial expressions mimic humans

Jia Jia, the creepily life-like 'robot goddess'

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