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Hiroshi Ishiguro, Hideyuki Nakanishi and Yoshifumi Kitamura .
We first enjoyed an Italian buffet Japan-style(vegetarian for me)
courtesy of Professor Asada at one of several restaurants on the campus.
Professor Asada, is renowned for his robotics work. He demonstrated CB2,
a child-like robot with a bio mimetic body, which was created to study the development of early cognition.
I was so lucky to meet the highly renowned Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro,
whose work with humanoid or android science is recognized world wide.
He gave us a very brief presentation on the multiple projects he and his
students work on in his Intelligent Robotic Lab. He created Repliee R1
a child robot patterned after his 6-year old daughter( which is himself
said people found creepy!)and the latest version - Repliee Q1,
an adult female humanoid :
He is most famous for Geminoid – an exact replica of himself, that is
controlled by motion-capture interface and can imitate Ishiguro
enabling him to be in two place at once!
And finally to the Human Interface Engineering Lab where Professor Kitamura
and his graduate students demonstrated seven 3D interactive projects exploring sophisticated intuitive user interfaces including ActiveCube,
allowing the user to construct and interact with a 3D environment,
Video Agents, an interactive environment in cyberspace using autonomous agents,
and Delphian Desktop, exploring a kinematics-based interface.