Project Aiko — D.I.Y. Japanese girl
Project Aiko is a do it yourself Japanese girl, coming from a Canadian inventor, Le Trung.
He says his inspiration for Aikko was from, “watching Robot anime, since I was a kid…After watching Chobits and DearS, I have made up my mind that I will make a full human android…All it takes is inspiration…”
In addition to robotic movement, Aiko can “feel pain” and is “bilingual” in English and Japanese.
According to the inventor, Project Aiko’s future abilities will include:
“This is my dream, don’t know it will come true, unless I try. One step at a time.
* Facial Expression for Aiko
* Make me tea and coffee
* Feed me sushi
* Make simple breakfast egg and bacon.
* I lie down on Aiko lap, and have her Q-tip my ear.
* Ability to massage shoulders and neck…..…..”
Project Aiko photo gallery
Link thanks to the always
wondrous Geisha-asobi.
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September 5th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Let me guess… the low tech approach was too simple ?
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