Robots are coming. More precisely, they defile

    The hero Al Pacino from the movie "Simone" claimed that virtual actors would soon supplant capricious and sometimes mediocre "real" stars. So far so far. But in the fashion world today, if not a coup, then at least an event can happen. At the beginning of Japan Fashion Week on March 23, developers from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) will show a robot girl who they taught the art of defile. They taught how they could, of course. Robot, though. The girls from the Victoria Secret show of this model called HRP-4C are still far away. But nonetheless.


    HRP-4C looks like an average static Japanese. Height - 158 centimeters. Weight - 43 kilograms. Robot movements are far from perfect. This can be fully seen in the video (under the cut). However, HRP-4C can, due to the presence of thirty motors, walk-defile, move its arms and head. In addition, eight more motors are built into the head of the robot, which are responsible for facial expressions.

    There is a robot-top model running ART-Linux, specially developed for the HRP-4C team of the Human Robotics Group (HRG), working at the AIST Institute.


    After the publication of Japanese Fashion Week, the creators plan to sell their robot. More precisely, a “developer kit”, which will include only the “frame” HRP-4C, without a face and an outer shell. You can buy a model model (a tautology, of course, but entertaining) for $ 200 thousand.



    via 3dnews , engadget

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