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Dr. GIY's Pre-made Me robot maid cleans up on the dance floor
Strange as it may seem, in the last few years Japan has been home to a fad where cute girls dressed up as french maids star in J-POP, comics, animation, and video games. The distinctive costume has grown so popular that there's a number of so-called maid cafés in Tokyo's geeky Akihabara district where anyone can enjoy the thrills of being served by a horde of hostesses in full outfit. That – to say nothing of Japan's endless fascination with humanoid robots – probably explains Pre-made Me, the latest creation by well-known Japanese roboticist Dr. GIY.
Dr. GIY is one of the regulars at Japan's robot wrestling tournaments, where hobbyists can enter their robots to win a nice cash prize. Usually it's a one-on-one duel where the participants try to knock each other down three times (a far gentler approach compared to the American competitions, where losing robots are virtually destroyed). Over the past decade he's built several prize-winning robots using parts sold by Kondo Kagaku – one of the first companies to put out humanoid robot kits – amongst others.
One of Dr. GIY's previous robots (left) fights another robot (right) in a robot wrestling tournament (Photo: Dr. GIY)
Unlike his champion wrestling robots, which owe their appearance to a legion of different giant robot heroes, Pre-made Me (or should that be translated as Pre-maid Me?) is different. Dr. GIY based her look on a character called Drossel, which is a Disney Japan creation that has her own premium toy line. Standing an impressive 20 inches (52 cm) tall (with an undisclosed weight), Pre-made Me cuts a slender figure and was designed specifically to put on elaborately choreographed dance shows.
In total, the robot has 27 degrees of freedom (6 per leg, 6 per arm, and 3 in the head and neck), actuated by Kondo servo motors, and is powered by a 11.1 V, 1,000 mAh Li-Po battery. Her paper thin exoskeleton was crafted by hand out of fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP), which fits perfectly over an aluminum frame. For the head, he carved a piece of balsa wood and then vacuum formed a piece of plastic over it. In all, it took him more than a year to complete the robot.
You can watch Pre-made Me do her thing in the following video, set to the tune of an AKB48 song (a popular all-girl J-POP group with no less than 91 members that, according to Wikipedia, is one of the highest-earning music groups in the world today). It's important to know that programming these robots to balance properly is notoriously difficult, so keep that in mind as you watch its fancy footwork.
Source: Dr. GIY (Japanese)
Source: http://www.gizmag.com/pre-made-me-dancing-robot-maid/25926/
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2015-2020
The emergence and widespread use of affordable android "avatars" controlled by a "brain-computer" interface. Coupled with related technologies “avatars’ will give people a number of new features: ability to work in dangerous environments, perform rescue operations, travel in extreme situations etc.
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2020-2025
Creation of an autonomous life-support system for the human brain linked to a robot, ‘avatar’, will save people whose body is completely worn out or irreversibly damaged. Any patient with an intact brain will be able to return to a fully functioning bodily life. Such technologies will greatly enlarge the possibility of hybrid bio-electronic devices, thus creating a new IT revolution and will make all kinds of superimpositions of electronic and biological systems possible.
2030-2035
Creation of a computer model of the brain and human consciousness with the subsequent development of means to transfer individual consciousness onto an artificial carrier. This development will profoundly change the world, it will not only give everyone the possibility of cybernetic immortality but will also create a friendly artificial intelligence, expand human capabilities and provide opportunities for ordinary people to restore or modify their own brain multiple times. The final result at this stage can be a real revolution in the understanding of human nature that will completely change the human and technical prospects for humanity.
2045
This is the time when substance-independent minds will receive new bodies with capacities far exceeding those of ordinary humans. A new era for humanity will arrive! Changes will occur in all spheres of human activity – energy generation, transportation, politics, medicine, psychology, sciences, and so on.
Today it is hard to imagine a future when bodies consisting of nanorobots will become affordable and capable of taking any form. It is also hard to imagine body holograms featuring controlled matter. One thing is clear however: humanity, for the first time in its history, will make a fully managed evolutionary transition and eventually become a new species. Moreover, prerequisites for a large-scale expansion into outer space will be created as well.
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