Who needs people anymore?
Faced with an aging population and fewer people who can make things like Priuses and Dance Dance Revolution, Japan has been busily building an army of robots that can take over.
And the newest of them looks like it can do Dance Dance Revolution while building a Prius.
Meet HRP-4, but you may as well give it your own name since it could eventually end up with your job.
Seriously, look at this thing -- and then look in the mirror. Which one would you hire?
The robot's creators at Kawada Industries and Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology say the machine's light weight and relatively low cost -- 26 million yen, or roughly $305,000 -- make it attractive to industry.
And its humanoid shape and size mean it can take over in places where humans had been working with no need to make changes to the workplace to accommodate it.
HRP-4 stands nearly 5 feet tall, weighs 85 pounds and sports 34 degrees of movement, including seven in each arm. It comes with facial-recognition technology so it can find you and hand you a pink slip, and it can wear a laptop computer on its back so it can take your favorite table at Starbucks, too.
Full story link with pictures: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/handsome-athletic-japanese-robot-wants-your-job/19642465
Faced with an aging population and fewer people who can make things like Priuses and Dance Dance Revolution, Japan has been busily building an army of robots that can take over.
And the newest of them looks like it can do Dance Dance Revolution while building a Prius.
Meet HRP-4, but you may as well give it your own name since it could eventually end up with your job.
Seriously, look at this thing -- and then look in the mirror. Which one would you hire?
The robot's creators at Kawada Industries and Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology say the machine's light weight and relatively low cost -- 26 million yen, or roughly $305,000 -- make it attractive to industry.
And its humanoid shape and size mean it can take over in places where humans had been working with no need to make changes to the workplace to accommodate it.
HRP-4 stands nearly 5 feet tall, weighs 85 pounds and sports 34 degrees of movement, including seven in each arm. It comes with facial-recognition technology so it can find you and hand you a pink slip, and it can wear a laptop computer on its back so it can take your favorite table at Starbucks, too.
Full story link with pictures: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/handsome-athletic-japanese-robot-wants-your-job/19642465
