A Japanese company has developed a robot that, when placed in the window of a store, you can spy on who they are and what customers are buying, in addition to taking different attitudes towards them.
"The dummies can be quiet, but will operate as notice the presence of a new customer," said the designer of the robot, Tatsuya Matsui. "The dummy provides an attractive look to increase the desire of consumers to buy," said Matsui, who chairs Flower Robotics Inc. The female robot named 'palette' can imitate the most beautiful women in the world, such as moving them to use a memory that allows you to capture movements imitate the models of the fashion world.
But Palette can be transformed into an industrial spy, since it has a schedule that allows you to guess the age and sex of shoppers and even identify the bags they lead and pass the information to marketing departments.
Matsui developed Palette with the software company SGI Japan Ltd. and intends to begin selling this year at the mannequin in the fashion industry and services. The price has not been defined yet, but SGI wants to be as close as possible to the other costs of conventional dummies, 50 to $ 80, according to Hiroshi Otsuka, who is awaiting a promotion at SGI Japan.
There is an opportunity to change the concept of immobility, which has not changed in over a century, Otsuka said. Some people may remember the American film 'Mannequin', 1987, starring Andrew McCarthy. Elactor plays a department store salesman who falls for a mannequin and she was really an ancient Egyptian woman, the victim of a spell.
"The attention of the customer focus in the face of the wrist," said Matsui, the designer, noting that what we want is that buyers should be fixed in the clothing and jewelry that wears the dummy. Palette is available in two versions, full-length legs but not, or only the upper torso, ready to display jewelry.Matsui said in the future wants to design a Palette with legs, and is accompanied by a man and child mannequins.
Japanese robot mannequins can spy on customers
The first robot store and museum in Japan
Our fellow Xataka advise fans of robotics to be booking their tickets to the city of Nagoya in Japan.
Because from October to open the first museum devoted entirely to robots of 2600 square meters with a specialized store with over 1,000 products of all kinds related to small automata.
In Robot Mirai Department, which is well known as the store, you can find all types of robots and accessories, as well as the star product: the robot this tab, a 39-cm humanoid designed to help with household chores
Saya teacher Robot Japan
Remember Asimo, well ... Now comes "The Japanese robot master." Generates more realistic face expressions. "But the designer says that is not ready to replace human instructors. It's Honda Motors, and can express six basic emotions - surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness and sadness - because your skin rubber is pulled from behind by motors and cables around the eyes and mouth. " Thanks to Carlos Neri this information comes to hand. Surely we will soon issue Saya lesson and take the exams!
Humanoid Robot list goes on and scolds Japanese classroom
TOKYO (AP) - The Japanese robot master pass list, smiles and scolds, provoking laughter from the students with realistic face. But its designer says that is not ready to replace human instructors.
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Unlike most mechanical-looking robots like Asimo, Honda Motors, the master robot, called Saya, may express six basic emotions _ surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness and sadness because their skin _ of rubber is pulled back from motors and cables around the eyes and mouth.
In a demonstration, the robot's mouth opened, his eyes widened and his eyebrows were arched in the tone of surprise. Saya stretched his lips into a smile and said preprogrammed phrases as "thank you very much, moving lips, to express pleasure.
"The robots seem human that tend to be very dear to children and the elderly," said Wednesday Hiroshi Kobayashi, a professor of science at the University of Tokyo and founder of Saya, the Associated Press. "The children even begin to mourn them when Saya scolds."
Developed initially as a receptionist robot in 2004, Saya was tested in a real classroom in Tokyo this year with a handful of students in fifth and sixth grades, but still can not do much more than roll and shout orders like "Shut up! .
The children enjoyed a lot, Kobayashi recalled, smiling when Saya said their names. Still, it is controlled remotely by a person who observes the interaction by means of cameras, he said.
Japan and other countries have hope that the robot will eventually be a solution for its growing labor shortages, the aging population. But scientists say there is no machine capable of dealing with children and the elderly.
Japanese robot model comes to the catwalks of Tokyo (video)
The cybernetic model, which weighs 43 kilograms and measured 1.58 meters, has a cost of two million dollars, its creators said that at the moment there are no plans to remove the market.
Tokyo .- From lab to photography sessions? Japanese humanoid robot will exhibit its hardware and software early on fashion.
The elegant HRP-4C battery operated motors are located in your body and face, allowing expressions, the poses and the passage of a supermodel, but point guard with assault black and silver color.
The cybernetic model of 43 kilos and 1.58 meters in height the March 23 parade on the catwalk of a fashion show in Tokyo. His new form is designed to fit into the average Japanese woman and has eyes, face and hair similar to the comics "anime" Japanese, said Masayoshi Kataoka, National Institute of Science and Technology who developed the robotic model.
At the moment there are no plans to market the robot HRP-4C, at a cost of two million dollars. Japan, where nearly half the world's 800,000 industrial robots, robotics industry plans to develop a 10,000 million dollars in the future, especially as attendees of its growing population of seniors. But the designers of the humanoid model say that their mission is only to entertain.