Actroid is a type of android (humanoid robot) with strong visual human-likeness developed by Osaka University and manufactured by Kokoro Company Ltd. (the animatronics division of Sanrio). It was first unveiled at the 2003 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan.
Several different versions of the product have been produced since
then. In most cases, the robot's appearance has been modeled after an
average young woman of Japanese descent.
The Actroid woman is a pioneer example of a real machine similar to imagined machines called by the science fiction terms android or gynoid, so far used only for fictional robots.
It can mimic such lifelike functions as blinking, speaking, and
breathing. The "Repliee" models are interactive robots with the ability
to recognize and process speech and respond in kind.
The interactive Actroids can communicate on a rudimentary level with humans by speaking.
The Repliee Q1 was modeled after a presenter for NHK
news. To make the face of the Repliee Q2 model, the faces of several
young Japanese women were scanned and the images combined into an average composite face.
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