Tokyo: A new craze is invading Japan. The HRP-4c Japanese humanoid robot is about to walk the fashion runway. This robot is designed like an average Japanese woman. It has a battery operated motors in its body and face thereby allowing it to move, has facial expressions and poses like a supermodel. It has eyes, face and hair that are based on Japanese anime. HRP-4c was developed by Masayoshi Kataoka from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. There is no immediate plan of bringing this $2 million in the market yet but with this new development, developers are expecting a $10 billion industries in the future.
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I am trying to figure out why, if the robot is designed like an average Japanese woman, they don’t use average Japanese women, instead.
I am also wondering why their “average Japanese woman” looks like a 12-year-old girl with big boobs…