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Nadine is a gynoid humanoid social robot that is modelled on Professor Nadia Magnenat Thalmann. [1] The robot has a strong human-likeness with a natural-looking skin and hair and realistic hands. Nadine is a socially intelligent robot which returns a greeting, makes eye contact, and can remember all the conversations had with it.
A companion robot is a robot created to create real or apparent companionship for human beings. [1] Target markets for companion robots include the elderly [ 2 ] and single children. [ 3 ] Companions robots are expected to communicate with non-experts in a natural and intuitive way.
Artificial human companions may be any kind of hardware or software creation designed to give companionship to a person. [1] Various types of large language models (LLMs) are used in the development of AI-based human companions. [ 2 ]
Sophia is a female social humanoid robot developed in 2016 by the Hong Kong–based company Hanson Robotics. [1] Sophia was activated on February 14, 2016, [2] and made her first public appearance in mid-March 2016 at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, United States. [3]
BINA48 (Breakthrough Intelligence via Neural Architecture 48*) [1] is a robotic face combined with chatbot functionalities, enabling simple conversation facilities. BINA48 is owned by Martine Rothblatt's Terasem Movement. [2] It was developed by Hanson Robotics and released in 2010. Its physical appearance is modeled after Bina Aspen, Rothblatt ...
The portmanteau "fembot" (feminine robot) was used as far back as 1959, in Fritz Leiber's The Silver Eggheads, applying specifically to non-sentient female sexbots. [5] It was popularized by the television series The Bionic Woman in the episode "Kill Oscar" (1976) [6] and later used in the Austin Powers films, [7] among others.
The album cover for Down for the Count by Y&T (1985) features a female robot being bitten in the neck by a vampire. [65] The album cover for Just Push Play by Aerosmith (2001) features a "curvy female robot in a Marilyn Monroe-like pose.". [66] The robot was designed by Hajime Sorayama. [67] [68] [69] [7]
The robot expresses its face by moving all points to the decided positions, they say. The first version of the robot was first developed back in 2003. After that, a year later, they made a couple of major improvements to the design. The robot features an elastic mask made from the average head dummy. It uses a driving system with a 3DOF unit.