The robot, which can copy human expressions, has the ability to move its eyes, eyebrows, mouth, and other muscles. It can also answer questions, serving as a “companion”, the company claims.
Promobot, the company behind ‘Android Robo-C’, claims its human-like bot, which has a specially developed artificial skin, has a range of over 600 facial expressions.
Promobot's chairman of the board of directors, Aleksei Iuzhakov (pictured below, eyeing up his robotic alter ego), says anyone will now be able to order a robot with any appearance, for professional or personal use.
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Iuzhakov says the company can build a linguistic model based on popular phrases of a particular person – the robot will communicate and answer questions by analysing frequent expressions of the ‘original...