Japanese scientist and robotics expert Hiroshi Ishiguro unveiled his latest android this weekend at the Global Futures 2045 International Congress in New York, a futuristic conference focused on the technological singularity.
Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University, Japan, has been known for developing lifelike androids, including a female used to sell clothing in a shop window, and "Telenoid," a robot designed to appear ageless and genderless so that people can project any face onto it -- a design he says has gone over well with the elderly in Denmark.