Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro is the roboticist of Osaka University, Japan. The Geminoid Hi-2 is a robot made by professor Hiroshi Ishiguro which is a copy of himself. Geminoid means twins in Latin. Beside Geminoid Hi-2 there are also two other Geminoid model robots are made in Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro’s lab: Geminoid F, a copy of a Japanese female anchorperson; Geminoid DK, the copy of Hiroshi Ishiguro’s colleague, Dr Henrik Scharfe.
Firstly, unlike the traditional robot was known as metal machine, working under the software do the robotistic and repetitive task, the Geminoid Hi-2 is build by “plastic skull, metal skeleton, urethane foam fresh, and silicone skin” (Ishiguro, Hiroshi). so the appearance and the feeling of skin are extremely like human, and they built Air-flow control valves inside and use them to control pneumatic actuators to accomplish the action of body and the expression on the face. “The robot is almost like a clone and has similar physical features to humans”. (Latinospost) People always feel nervous at the beginning of conversation, but Geminoid Hi-2 doesn’t have this problem, and also people will forget that they are talking to a robot. This will be the advantage of Geminoid Hi-2 to communicate with people.
Secondly, this robot doesn’t have processor, so it cannot think independently or make decision by itself, people can remote control it via computer. So it can help to do lots of job. It can be used in hospital or gerocomium, because it doesn’t fell anything, so robot will not complain about the boring work or some other negative emotion, so the robot can really improve the efficiency.
The robot can also be used in the school. Children will like this new teacher, this technology can motivate children’s interest of science.
Firstly, unlike the traditional robot was known as metal machine, working under the software do the robotistic and repetitive task, the Geminoid Hi-2 is build by “plastic skull, metal skeleton, urethane foam fresh, and silicone skin” (Ishiguro, Hiroshi). so the appearance and the feeling of skin are extremely like human, and they built Air-flow control valves inside and use them to control pneumatic actuators to accomplish the action of body and the expression on the face. “The robot is almost like a clone and has similar physical features to humans”. (Latinospost) People always feel nervous at the beginning of conversation, but Geminoid Hi-2 doesn’t have this problem, and also people will forget that they are talking to a robot. This will be the advantage of Geminoid Hi-2 to communicate with people.
Secondly, this robot doesn’t have processor, so it cannot think independently or make decision by itself, people can remote control it via computer. So it can help to do lots of job. It can be used in hospital or gerocomium, because it doesn’t fell anything, so robot will not complain about the boring work or some other negative emotion, so the robot can really improve the efficiency.
The robot can also be used in the school. Children will like this new teacher, this technology can motivate children’s interest of science.