Robo Japan builds the model.

While people here even after Germanys Next Topmodel examined, it has already been found in Japan. The dream of the future wife there is 1.58 meters tall, weighs 43 pounds and needs above all one thing: A fully charged battery.

 

It is the star of future fashion shows will be her first public appearance is scheduled for next week. The name of the lady: HRP-4C. As this name suggests, is not a super model that his body daily in the gym or excess pounds steels abhungern need. HRP-4C is a robot woman, and must, if at all, no more than careful not too far from the nearest outlet to remove.

On Monday was HRP-4C at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tokyo presented. The body of the electric catwalk miracle was silver and black colored plastic parts on a metal frame screwed together and should be the dimensions correspond to an average Japanese woman.

In particular, much effort is made so that their developers, HRP-4C the most attractive face. Visually oriented the technician is on the ideals of the Manga comics are specified: small nose, large eyes, pitch-black hair.

Electrical stage fright at the first appearance

Above all, they have tried, the Blechkameradin to a halfway credible mimicry to help. Around a quarter of over 40 engines from which to move their limbs, have been used for the face. The other is to ensure that the robots are equally elegant lady on the catwalk can run as their colleagues from flesh and blood. Approximately 200 million yen, almost 1.6 million euros, the development of HRP-4C tasted.

During the presentation of the electric models shown but then very quickly that the delicate electronics behind the pretty face is just slightly nervous, as some real model: When the present HRP-4C photographers with a flash thunderstorm exaggerated entglitten her facial features. Instead of smiling as ordered, they stared with open mouth against the surprise of the reporters.

Guilty of the misconduct was an overloading of the sensors for optical and acoustic signals, with the help of which the human machine is normally based. This error, however, researchers should quickly stop. Because if HRP-4C, 23 March the first time enters the catwalk to demonstrate new fashion, it should again in the spotlight of the photographers are.