The girlie-faced humanoid with slightly oversized eyes, a tiny nose and a shoulder length hair-do boasts 42 motion motors programmed to mimic the movements of flesh-and-blood fashion models.<\/p>\n
"Hello everybody, I am cybernetic human HRP-4C," said the futuristic fashionista, opening her media premiere at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology outside Tokyo.<\/p>\n
The fashion-bot is 158 centimetres tall, the average height of Japanese women aged 19 to 29, but weighs in at a waif-like 43kg – including batteries.<\/p>\n
She has a manga-inspired human face but a silver metallic body.<\/p>\n
"If we had made the robot too similar to a real human, it would have been uncanny," said one of the inventors, humanoid research leader Shuji Kajita.<\/p>\n
"We have deliberately leaned toward an anime style."<\/p>\n
The institute said the robot "has been developed mainly for use in the entertainment industry" but is not for sale at the moment.<\/p>\n
Hamming it up before photographers and television crews, the seductive cyborg struck poses, flashed bright smiles and pouted sulkily according to commands transmitted wirelessly from journalists via bluetooth devices.<\/p>\n
The performance fell short of flawless when she occasionally mixed up her facial expressions – a mistake the inventors put down to a case of the nerves as a hail of camera shutters confused her sound recognition sensors.<\/p>\n
The preview was a warm-up for her appearance at a Tokyo fashion show on March 23.<\/p>\n
Like her real-life counterparts, robot model HRP-5C commands a hefty price – the institute said developing her cost more than 200 million yen ($2 million).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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