Meet Geminoid-F, Professor Ishiguro's latest uncanny android
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A glimpse of a dystopian future where penal systems and retail collide?
Will shoppers take to Geminoid-F?
Admirers of lifelike androids could do worse than take a trip to Tokyo's Shinjuku ward, where Professor Ishiguro's Geminoid-F is on display until Valentine's Day
Geminoid-F will not go out of its way to play to the crowd
Geminoid-F will not go out of its way to play to the crowd
Geminoid-F is programmed with 65 human-like actions
Geminoid-F is programmed with 65 human-like actions
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Visitors to Tokyo's Shinjuku ward my find themselves figuratively transported to the uncanny valley, if they take a stroll past Takashimaya department store, that is. Until Valentine's Day, a prominent display window there will play glassy prison cell to the impressive and unnerving Geminoid-F android. Geminoid-F is so strikingly lifelike in appearance, yet so thoroughly inhuman in many respects (head and eye movement among them), that it can only be the work of that master of the uncanny, Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro.
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