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Robotics expert Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro has developed life-like Japanese news-reading androids named Kodomoroid and Ontonaroid.
Kodomoroid, resembling a young child, will serve the role as the world’s first newscaster while Ontonaroid who resembles an adult, will be a science communicator.
The two robots, along with the earlier developed Telenoid will be displayed permanently at Japan’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan).
Visitors to the museum can watch Kodomoroid reporting global news in different voices and languages. The public is allowed to interact with Ontonaroid and Telenoid by having a human-like conversation with them.
Check out a video of the robots in action below.
[via Laughing Squid, images from Miraikan]
Robotics expert Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro has developed life-like Japanese news-reading androids named Kodomoroid and Ontonaroid.
Kodomoroid, resembling a young child, will serve the role as the world’s first newscaster while Ontonaroid who resembles an adult, will be a science communicator.
The two robots, along with the earlier developed Telenoid will be displayed permanently at Japan’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan).
Visitors to the museum can watch Kodomoroid reporting global news in different voices and languages. The public is allowed to interact with Ontonaroid and Telenoid by having a human-like conversation with them.
Check out a video of the robots in action below.
[via Laughing Squid, images from Miraikan]