Androids… WOW Japan.

Check this out @_@

Here’s the article on it.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/how-to-make-a-robot-dance

The future might look something like this:

With that, there’s no way Vocaloid would not come into this as they are computer voice sythesizers, perfect to be an android’s voice bank. Here’s GUMI (a Megpoid which is similar to a Vocaloid)

Repliee Q1expo really intrigued me so I went and look up Hiroshi Ishiguro some more and see what he has done in the past 7 years after showing Repliee Q1expo in 2005. He made some amazing improvements on the androids… first he made a copy of himself which he called Geminoid.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/humanoids/hiroshi-ishiguro-the-man-who-made-a-copy-of-himself

Then he made a much more friendly looking Geminoid called Geminoid F

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/040310-geminoid-f-hiroshi-ishiguro-unveils-new-smiling-female-android

Apparently Geminoid F was given a role as a Robot Actress

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/humanoids/geminoid-f-takes-the-stage

Here’s a video showing Geminoid F showing human movements