- Hiroshi Ishiguro
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name=Hiroshi Ishiguro
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birth_name=Hiroshi Ishiguro
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nationality=Japanese
occupation=Scientist
employer=Osaka University Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro is director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, part of the Department of Adaptive Machine Systems(知能・機能創成工学専攻) atOsaka University ,Japan . A notable development of the laboratory is theactroid , a humanoid robot with lifelike appearance and visible behaviour such as facial movements.In robot development, Professor Ishiguro concentrates on the idea of making a robot that is as similar as possible to a live human being; at the unveiling in July 2005 of the "female" android named Repliee Q1Expo, he was quoted [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4714135.stm BBC news story 27 July 2005] ] as saying "I have developed many robots before, but I soon realised the importance of its appearance. A human-like appearance gives a robot a strong feeling of presence. ... Repliee Q1Expo can interact with people. It can respond to people touching it. It's very satisfying, although we obviously have a long way to go yet." In his opinion, it may be possible to build an android that is indistinguishable from a human, at least during a brief encounter.
Ishiguro has made an android that resembles himself, called the Geminoid, but dubbed by Wired (April 2007) [ [http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/04/professor_ishig.html "Wired" story 26 April 2007] ] his "Creepy Robot Doppelganger". The Geminoid was among the robots featured by
James May in his 5 October 2008 BBC2 documentary on robots "Man-Machine" in his series "Big Ideas".Publications
Books
[http://www.dma.jim.osaka-u.ac.jp/kg-portal/aspI/RY0021L_E.asp?UNO=10220&seq=10440 List at Osaka university website]
Papers
[http://www.dma.jim.osaka-u.ac.jp/kg-portal/aspI/RY0011L_E.asp?UNO=10220&seq=10440 List at Osaka university website]
Awards
* Best paper award at the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007) March 2007
* Best poster award at the same conference
* Best Humanoid Award (Kid size) at RoboCup 2006 (Bremen, Germany)References
External links
* [http://www.ed.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/ Osaka Intelligent Robotics Laboratory website]
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