{"id":2029,"date":"2009-03-18T07:56:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2009-03-17T08:57:36","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T12:57:36","slug":"yeah-we-never-saw-that-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=2029","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, We Never Saw <em>That<\/em> Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/modelrobot.jpg\" alt=\"Model Robot\" title=\"Model Robot\" width=\"117\" height=\"142\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>A robot&#8230;designed to look like a pretty girl.  (!!!)<\/p>\n<p>Cybernetic Human HRP-4C is a &#8220;fashion-bot&#8221;  that will soon be strolling the catwalk in Tokyo.  She&#8217;s been programmed to emulate 42 different &#8220;fashion model movements,*&#8221; and although she&#8217;s designed to look more or less like an average Japanese woman, her creators gave her slightly larger-than-normal eyes and a tiny nose.  They claim that the manga-inspired looks are to avoid the uncanny valley of a more faithfully-rendered human face.<\/p>\n<p>Uh-huh.<\/p>\n<p>The robot &#8220;has been developed mainly for use in the entertainment industry,&#8221; and although she&#8217;s not for sale yet her eventual price tag will be around $200,000.  Fanboys who want an interactive anime character of their own should start saving up now.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=brD5D0ytD04\">video<\/A> of the thing in action.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5hBPgw0VQbyc6TnS-Bdy23twH1iQg\">Link<\/A> <I>(via <A HREF=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/\">Discoblog<\/A>)<\/I><\/p>\n<p>*No word on whether sticking her finger down her throat is one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A robot&#8230;designed to look like a pretty girl. (!!!) Cybernetic Human HRP-4C is a &#8220;fashion-bot&#8221; that will soon be strolling the catwalk in Tokyo. She&#8217;s been programmed to emulate 42 different &#8220;fashion model movements,*&#8221; and although she&#8217;s designed to look more or less like an average Japanese woman, her creators gave her slightly larger-than-normal eyes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}