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Ameca was "viral" so now others try to imitate the look, there even were a number of "grey faces". Now, in China, EX Robotics' "mechanical body" look got popular, so others imitate it, up to doing stuff like covering otherwise silicone body with "plastic looking" cloth (CST does this).
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So far I couldn't find any details what kind of a place it is, a temporary exhibition, a museum, a showroom with restricted access. There were earlier mentions of this term in Chinese media coinciding with robotics exhibitions in Beijing last year, but again, with no details.
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The supposedly oldest video file in my "robotics" folder where I keep stuff related to robotics, is called "necoro1.mpg", but in this case I know the source, it's this page, online, it has that video linked.
pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/article...
It is labeled as being made "16 October 2001 at 7:57"
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Original tweet
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zg2...
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There is some gesture recognition in software that was running when I was there I recall!
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It really is a "hidden gem" of a museum.
For me perhaps the main "lesser known" artifact there at the museum was the original android robot head of Fumio Hara lab at Tokyo University of Science, one of the first android robots in academia, donated by Fumio Hara himself.
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Note from @nostalgianerd.com!
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This Nadine is of significance because this is the only publicly accessible android robot in the whole of Europe (although there are also animatronics which can be counted as android robots, but this Nadine is pretty much the only one which fits the full definition including interactivity).
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This Nadine I filmed what is now five years ago pretty much.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKWC...
I also had an own overview of the museum as a side-note
www.youtube.com/watch?v=biDA...
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News article with a couple of clips.
Source: news.2500sz.com/doc/2025/02/...
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They are not limited to android robotics development, here's an introductory video about them.
Source: space.bilibili.com/3546802158570199
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Close-up by another douyin and bilibili account.
Source: www.douyin.com/video/747126... or www.bilibili.com/video/BV1nuK...
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Other head of theirs from their official douyin.
Source: www.douyin.com/video/746045...
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As I haven't linked "Sawarimoto" before, here it is: "Sawarimōto: A Vision and Touch Sensor-based Method for Automatic or Tele-operated Android-to-human Face Touch"
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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The paper: frontiersin.org/journals/robotics-and-ai/articles/10.3389/frobt.2024.1426717
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As the key developer behind @masiro-project.bsky.social ponders — the expo's policy sounds inconsistent, as if the wheeled robots might be treated as luggage and thus restricted by size, but not legged robot perhaps
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I'm more into android robotics, and while it wasn't as "big" as in humanoid robotics or software side of things, it feels like both r&d is picking up (there was a sort of a slump in the field ever since it became obvious Toshiba failed with their project five or so years ago)
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another video of Ubtech Una
Source: www.tiktok.com/@sheryjillan...
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These robots (a few seconds at least) were featured in one show about Hanako Showa 2 from TBS channel of Japan.
Source: www.dailymotion.com/video/x36rqdc
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Other photos of さゆり (Sayuri)
Img. 1 source: www.mech.kogakuin.ac.jp/ms/reserch/d...
Img. 2, 3 source: www8.cao.go.jp/cstp/sangaku...
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Source: www.douyin.com/video/747012...
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this performance filmed by someone on douyin
Source: v.douyin.com/iPUo9yas