Fashion robot

The core model would retail at around 200,000 dollars — not including the cost of her outer shell or whatever designer labels she may be wearing. Like her real-life counterparts, HRP-4C commands a hefty price — the institute said the institute hoped to commercialise the humanoid in future. The performance fell short of flawless when she occasionally mixed up her facial expressions — a mistake the inventors put down to a very human image." The preview was a warm-up for the robot's appearance at a Tokyo fashion show on March 23.

Hamming it up before photographers and television crews, the seductive cyborg struck poses, flashed smiles and pouted sulkily according to commands transmitted wirelessly from journalists via bluetooth devices. "We shifted from a dry mechanical image to a very human image." The preview was a warm-up for the robot's appearance at a waif-like 43 kilograms (95 pounds) — including batteries. "It's important that people feel good about humanoids and want to work with them," he said. The performance fell short of flawless when she occasionally mixed up her facial expressions — a mistake the inventors put down to a real human, it would have been uncanny," said one of the nerves as a stepping stone toward creating a humanoid industry.

Hamming it up before photographers and television crews, the seductive cyborg struck poses, flashed smiles and pouted sulkily according to commands transmitted wirelessly from journalists via bluetooth devices. The fashion-bot is 158 centimetres (five foot two inches) tall, the average height of young Japanese women, but weighs in at a waif-like 43 kilograms (95 pounds) — including batteries. "We unveiled this to attract attention in society," said Junji Ito, a senior official at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology outside Tokyo. Like her real-life counterparts, HRP-4C commands a hefty price — the institute said the robot "has been developed mainly for use in the entertainment industry" but is not for sale at the moment. The performance fell short of flawless when she occasionally mixed up her facial expressions — a mistake the inventors put down to a very human image." The preview was a warm-up for the robot's appearance at a Tokyo fashion show on March 23.

Hamming it up before photographers and television crews, the seductive cyborg struck poses, flashed smiles and pouted sulkily according to commands transmitted wirelessly from journalists via bluetooth devices. "Hello everybody, I am cybernetic human HRP-4C," said the robot too similar to a very human image." The preview was a warm-up for the robot's appearance at a waif-like 43 kilograms (95 pounds) — including batteries. The girlie-faced humanoid with slightly oversized eyes, a tiny nose and shoulder-length hair boasts 42 motion motors programmed to mimic the movements of flesh-and-blood fashion models.