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<title><![CDATA[Robot clone summit like one big, happy family]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Meet the Geminoids: Seated, from left to right, Geminoid F, Geminoid HI-1, and Geminoid DK. Standing behind them are some random humans.(Credit:Geminoid.dk)Imagine walking into a room and seeing these people. Well, only some of them are people. Imagine they're all sitting down and they slowly turn to you and one says, &quot;Welcome. You're just in time for your Voight-Kampff test.&quot; Kyoto took on a sci-fi tinge recently when the Geminoid clan had a family reunion. The people who spawned three of Japan's eerie lifelike robots met up with their clones at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) for some heart-warming photos. ATR has been developing the air servo-powered doppelgangers since 2006, when Osaka University engineering professor Hiroshi Ishiguro unveiled an android copy of himself called Geminoid HI-1 for research into robotics and cognitive science. Ishiguro, who works with Tokyo-based entertainment firm Kokoro, later fashioned a female robot called Geminoid F that was based on a female model. Last year, Danish professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University's Center for Computer-mediated Epistemology got into the game by ordering the first Geminoid based on a non-Japanese. When Scharfe ordered his Geminoid DK bot from Kokoro, the price tag was around $200,000, he told The Vancouver Sun. It took about six months to build. Scharfe can remotely operate Geminoid DK so that it imitates some of his upper-body movements such as head position and facial expression. Meanwhile, it automatically &quot;breathes&quot; and blinks for a more lifelike effect. &quot;It begins to feel very natural to operate it,&quot; Scharfe tweeted. &quot;Really like a natural extension of my first body.&quot;Scharfe said he used his clone in a translation experiment when he got together with the other Geminoids.  Geminoid DK is due to appear at an exhibition titled &quot;IRL: In Real Life 2011&quot; at the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art in Dublin this summer, where Scharfe will deliver a keynote address. The android will also do a stint at a men's fashion shop in Denmark, perhaps as a kind of freaky mannequin. What would the Old Navy dummies say<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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