Conférence "Studies on very humainlike robots"
Prof. Hiroshi ISHIGURO
Département of Systems Innovation, Osaka University
ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratry
Thursday, December 20th, 18:30
Lecture Hall BECQUEREL, École Polytechnique
Geminoid that is
a tele-operated android of an existing person can transmit the presence of the
operator to the distant place. The operator recognizes the android body as his/her
own body after talking with someone through the geminoid and has virtual
feeling to be touched when someone touches to the geminoid. However, the
geminoid is not the ideal medium for everybody. For example, elderly people
hesitate to talk with adult humans and adult androids. A question is what is
the ideal medium for everybody. In order to investigate the ideal medium, we
are proposing the minimum design of interactive humanoids. It is called
Telenoid. The geminoid is the perfect copy of an existing person and it is the
maximum design of interactive humanoids. On the other hand, the minimum design
looks like a human but we cannot know the age and gender. Elderly people like to talk with the
telenoid. In this talk, we discuss the design principles and the effect to the
conversation.
Who is Prof. Ishiguro?
Hiroshi Ishiguro (M’) received a
D.Eng. in systems engineering from the Osaka University, Japan in 1991. He is
currently Professor of Department of Systems Innovation in the Graduate School
of Engineering Science at Osaka University (2009–) and Group Leader (2011–) of
Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory at the Advanced Telecommunications Research
Institute (ATR).
His research interests include distributed sensor
systems, interactive robotics, and android science. He has published more than
300 papers in major journals and conferences, such as Robotics Research and
IEEE PAMI. On the other hand, he has developed many humanoids and androids,
called Robovie, Repliee, Geminoid, Telenoid, and Elfoid. These robots have been
reported many times by major media, such as Discovery channel, NHK, and BBC. He
has also received the best humanoid award four times in RoboCup. In 2007,
Synectics Survey of Contemporary Genius 2007 has selected him as one of the top
100 geniuses alive in the world today.