Prof Hiroshi Ishigro of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at the Osaka University Department of Adaptive Machine Systems has been getting a lot of publicity for his android doppelganger. The BBC have a video report here. Pink Tentacle has a host of links to video footage of Ishigro’s RL avatar.

Ishigro wants his (very expensive) androids to offer virtual presence for executives - the 21C corporate jet. While Fortune 500 company CEOs chase IBM’s Sam Palmisano into virtual boardrooms Russian oligarchs and Chinese ministers will flaunt their new status by staging their virtual conferences in real boardrooms. Don’t think geminoids won’t have real bodyguards.

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