There was a news on the Internet called "Japan's "wife robot" listed in an hour to be robbed", in the article introduced that the Japanese beauty robot was named "wife", because of the sweet appearance, and can be customized according to the wishes of customers, the appearance and demeanor are very realistic and have been sought after by people. It was sold out madly when it was 1 hour ago. So what are the facts?
Wife robot
In fact, in this report, the picture used is not the same robot, or even the robot designed and produced by the same team, but the beautiful robot Jiajia from the mainland and the Japanese beauty robot ERICA.
In the text, the Japanese beauty robot ERICA can be described as a big name in the intelligent robot industry, and his designer is Ishiguro Hiroshi, the father of Japanese robots.
Unlike many robot designers, Ishiguro is very pursuit of "human-like" design, he designed a robot with a very high degree of similarity to humans, he once designed a robot in his own image, from the appearance alone, you can't even tell who is the real person.
ERICA is a smart beauty robot he developed, in order to make her image more suitable for humans, Ishiguro and his team have made many adjustments to its exterior, and her appearance has also been specially designed, making her image very beautiful.
Not only that, ERICA belongs to an intelligent robot, this intelligent robot is not only simple reading, dialogue, etc., but also able to identify the direction of their own and the chatter, timely turn the head to produce eye contact, let people feel more intimate.
Erica's voice is a sound that is recorded by a real person and synthesized again on the computer, which also sounds very similar to a real person, and it is closer to the sense of distance with humans.
Secondly, when chatting with intelligent robots, many people tend to feel that intelligent robots are "cold" and not as warm as humans. In addition to the factor of tone, there is also a factor is the expression. Yes, humans make a variety of expressions during the dialogue process, sometimes even relying on expressions alone to respond to each other.
The special thing about ERICA is that she can make a lot of expressions, blink, and her neck can twist, etc. Ishiguro even introduced that in the future, ERICA will have an independent consciousness.
Because of Erica's youthful and beautiful appearance and highly intelligent interaction design, she was favored by Hollywood, playing the female number one in the science fiction blockbuster "B", and playing herself in her true colors.
In the picture of "Japan's "Wife Robot" Listed and Robbed of Light in An Hour", there is another beautiful robot, that is, the beautiful robot Jiajia designed by the mainland.
Jiajia was born in April 2016, the design team gave her the connotation of "kindness", "diligence" and "wisdom", in order to match these connotations, she also designed her appearance to be very beautiful.
According to reports, when Jiajia's appearance was designed, the looks of 5 beautiful college students of the University of Science and Technology of China were collected, and they were used as prototypes, and finally the beautiful robot Jiajia was designed.
Jiajia is also an intelligent interactive robot, and the purpose of developing her is not to act as a "wife robot", but for intelligent research.
To say more, Indian folk robot enthusiasts have also developed a robot, but the man has neither research and development funds nor business funding, and can only use garbage waste to design the shape of the robot. Due to limited funds and no refined sculpting robot shape, people do not have a high evaluation of the robot. However, if the man can get funding for research, there may be a new beautiful robot.
Although many countries around the world are developing beautiful robots, and robots have been highly intelligent, the feeling of daily dialogue is very similar to that of real people. But none of these robots have the function of a "wife robot".
According to the article, the beautiful robot can go up to the hall and the kitchen, can help you cook, do housework, wash clothes, it can be said that in addition to giving birth to children, it can definitely meet people's settings of "perfect wife".
But is this really the case?
The first is that whether it is the mainland beauty robot Jiajia, or the Japanese beauty robot, can not move, in addition to the head can be rotated, other body parts need human help to move.
In this respect, they could not cook, clean, make the bed, welcome the host home, and could only sit in a fixed corner and chat with the owner.
Secondly, they did not produce in large quantities, and there are internet rumors that a "beautiful robot" only cost 100,000 yuan and was robbed of it within an hour of listing. But in fact, these robots belong to the research robots, the application scenarios are not many, and there are no sales to the public, only a very small number of companies or teams with scientific research needs to buy, and the price is not the 100,000 yuan rumored on the Internet, even the cheapest one is more than 600,000.
Does the wife robot really exist?
Modern young people are limited by narrow circles and do not know many people; coupled with the fact that time is occupied by online games, film and television dramas; or dealing with the opposite sex is not smooth, resulting in difficulties in getting off the list, especially some boys, who want a wife robot to replace the function of the wife.
From this point of view, there are indeed some boys and robots married, such as: an engineer in Hangzhou, the mainland, and his team designed the robot "Yingying" married, the two also held a wedding, invited family and friends to watch the ceremony. According to reports, the man was frustrated in love and has not found a suitable partner.
There are also some cases of male and beautiful robots living together, but these robots do not have the function of "wives", they cannot walk, and their actions need to be carried.
And they don't know how to participate in family life, so they married and married a robot, but in fact, the robot is not a wife robot in the strict sense.
Moreover, from the current technology point of view, there is no research team in the development of "wife robots", most of them are developing "intelligent interactive robots", just because these robots have a beautiful appearance and a good face, which has triggered the associations of netizens.