{"id":1992,"date":"2009-12-14T11:46:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T11:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/for-a-post-christmas-treat-order-a-looky-likey-android-from-japan-robots\/"},"modified":"2009-12-14T11:46:27","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T11:46:27","slug":"for-a-post-christmas-treat-order-a-looky-likey-android-from-japan-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/for-a-post-christmas-treat-order-a-looky-likey-android-from-japan-robots.php","title":{"rendered":"For a Post-Christmas Treat, Order a Looky-Likey Android From Japan [Robots]"},"content":{"rendered":"

What would you spend $225,000 on? An animated android, styled after yourself? Starting in January the Japanese store Sogo & Seibu will begin taking pre-orders for these \"Actroids.\" They may not walk, but they can<\/em> move their upper bodies.<\/p>

Kokoro, the company which brought us those HRP-4C<\/a> female androids back in 2005, will make these Actroids for Sogo & Seibu. Customers can record audio so the robots not only look like them but also sound like them, and \"she also does the best work as a guide with her out-standing eye-catch effect!\" Careful you don't fall for her eye-catch effect too hard, now. [Sankei News<\/a> via PlasticPals<\/a> and CrunchGear<\/a>]<\/p>

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