Dr. GIY's Pre-made Me robot maid cleans up on the dance floor
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Dr. GIY's Pre-made Me is a 52 cm tall dancing robot maid (Photo: Dr. GIY)
Dr. GIY's concept sketch of Pre-made Me (Photo: Dr. GIY)
Pre-made Me's custom-made aluminum frame (Photo: Dr. GIY)
Dr. GIY's CAD rendering shows where the servo motors go inside the head (Photo: Dr. GIY)
To make the head, Dr. GIY first carved a piece of balsa wood before using vacuum forming to mold the plastic (Photo: Dr. GIY)
Pre-made Me's completed head in profile (Photo: Dr. GIY)
A rear view of Pre-made Me shows the delicate legs before the skirt and other parts have been added (Photo: Dr. GIY)
Dr. GIY made these fiber-reinforced plastic shells to cover the robot's lower legs (Photo: Dr. GIY)
The legs begin to take shape - but the shoes and decorative bolts still need to be added (Photo: Dr. GIY)
Pre-made Me's completed apron with decorative bolts for buttons (Photo: Dr. GIY)
A look at Dr. GIY's custom-built robot Pre-made Me (Photo: Dr. GIY)
Pre-made Me has 27 servo motors throughout its body, allowing it to move (Photo: Dr. GIY)
Dr. GIY programs the robot's movements, which can then be played back in sequence - a bit like stop-motion animation (Photo: Dr. GIY)
Dr. GIY's maid-like robot Pre-made Me was built entirely by hand and took more than a year to complete (Photo: Dr. GIY)
One of Dr. GIY's previous robots (left) fights another robot (right) in a robot wrestling tournament (Photo: Dr. GIY)
Article Summary
Strange as it may seem, in the last few years Japan has been home to a fad where cute girls dressed up as french maids star in J-POP, comics, animation, and video games. The distinctive costume has grown so popular that there's a number of so-called maid cafés in Tokyo's geeky Akihabara district where anyone can enjoy the thrills of being served by a horde of hostesses in full outfit. That – to say nothing of Japan's endless fascination with humanoid robots – probably explains Pre-made Me, the latest creation by well-known Japanese roboticist Dr. GIY.
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