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[10 Apr 2011 | No Comment | ]
Geminoid Summit

According to IEEE Spectrum’s automation blog, three geminoids met in Japan at the ATR laboratory on March 30th. What are geminoids? They are telepresence robots that take the form of an android (human looking robot).
You can probably tell that the people standing are the real humans, and the rest are the geminoids. The geminoids are Geminoid F, Geminoid HI-1, and Geminoid DK, whose originals are the lady on the left (whose identity we don’t know too much about), Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University, and Prof. Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University, in Denmark respectively.
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[16 May 2010 | No Comment | ]
BBC News – Tokyo couple married by robot in rooftop wedding

For the first time in the world a robot conducted a wedding for a cute Japanese couple, BBC reports.
BBC News – Tokyo couple married by robot in rooftop wedding.