3. NADINE
Nadine is an empathetic robot that returns greetings, makes eye contact, and
remembers all the conversations that have been had with her. She is a human-like robot
with personality, mood, and emotions. The face and hands of Nadine are created by a
Japanese company Kokoro, similar to her creator, Professor Nadia Thalmann.
4. GEMINOID DK
This robot is a realistic twin of Henry Scharfe of the University of Aalborg. It is
the latest iteration of the Geminoid series of ultra-realistic androids. This
humanoid robot results from a collaboration between a private Japanese firm
and Osaka University, which was supervised by Hiroshi Ishiguro, the director
of the university’s Intelligent Robotics Laboratory.
5. JUNCO CHIHIRA
Junco Chihira is a very realistic android robot created by Toshiba. Junco works
full-time in a tourist information center in Tokyo. It is the successor of another
Android Aiko Chihira who worked as a receptionist in a department store in
Japan. Earlier, Junco Chihira was only able to respond with the scripted pre-set
speech, but from 2017 it has gained speech recognition capabilities and can
respond to tourists' questions.
6. JIA JIA
Jia Jia is China’s first humanoid robot. This Chinese humanoid robot puts
on a charm in Shanghai; People worldwide admire Jia Jia for her most
realistic and alluring appearance.
Jia Jia is created by the University of Science and Technology research
team in China.
7. SOPHIA
Sophia is considered the most advanced humanoid robot. Sophia debuted in 2016, she was one of a
kind, and her interaction with people was the most unlikely thing you can ever see in a machine. She
was designed by a Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics and was created to look like Audrey
Hepburn, a famous Hollywood actress because the creators' goal was to fit her as an old age
companion in nursing homes or a crowd manager in events.
8. ADVANTAGES
• In many situations robots can increase productivity, efficiency, quality and consistency of
products:
• Unlike humans, robots dont get bored
• Until they wear out, they can do the same thing again and again
• They can be very accurate - to fractions of an inch (as is needed for example in manufacturing of
microelectronics)
• Robots can work in environments which are unsafe for humans - in the nuclear or chemical
industries for example
• Robots dont have the same environmental requirements that humans do - such as lighting, air
conditioning or noise protection
• Robots have some sensors/actuators which are more capable than humans
9. DISADVANTAGES
• The use of robots can create economic problems if they replace human jobs
• Robots can only do what they are told to do - they cant improvise
• This means that safety procedures are needed to protect humans and other robots
• Although robots can be superior to humans in some ways, they are less dextrous than humans,
they dont have such powerful brains, and cannot compete with a humans ability to understand
what they can see.
• Often robots are very costly - in terms of the initial cost, maintenance, the need for extra
components and the need to be programmed to do the task.
10. FUTURE OF HUMANOID ROBOTS
Well, the humanoid robot is a robot that resembles the
human body. The robots are designed for functional purposes
which include human interaction, or experimental purposes.
There has been a study that the number of robots will
increase over the next decade, and about 25% of the human
labor work will be performed by robots. This will possible
because of the reduction in the manufacturing costs and
improvement in the overall performance.
11. CONCLUSION
• you have explored robots like Nadine, Jia Jia, Geminoid DK, etc. These ultra-realistic robots look exactly
like humans. Although their behavior still needs more improvement to resemble a human completely, it
is clear that rendering social and relational learning to robots is feasible; this may improve in the future
with increasing advances in Artificial Intelligence.
