The Realbotix robotics company presents Mélody, a robot designed to keep company for isolated people.
In 2018, the Japanese Akihiko Kondo celebrated his union with the virtual singer Hatsune Miku. While the country of the Sun-Levant is experiencing an important birth rate crisis, an increasing number of people decide to contract unofficial marriages with fictitious characters. A phenomenon notably favored by the emergence of always more advanced technologies in terms of artificial intelligence. Risky advances if we consider the suicide of a 14 -year -old teenager after developing an obsession for an AI, tells RMC.
Despite the dangers, innovation is not ready to stop. Business Realbotix indeed took advantage of the effervescence of the sector to release a new humanoid robot called Melody. This automaton, both advertising representative, helping elderly characters and life companion is intended to “stem the solitude epidemic”.
The company had the ambition to create robots with human characteristics, declares Andrew Kiguel, director of Realbotix, in Forbes. As its buyer guise, humanoid can be configured as a man or a woman. It can even look like a historic or famous figure, he adds.
Melody’s face, animated by micro-cameras and 17 engines is also able to express a wide range of emotions while maintaining visual contact. It can also recognize its users and adapt to their behavior to offer fluid and unique interactions.
In terms of price, the entry -level model still costs $ 12,000. For this sum, you have the right to a kind of speaking headache. On the other hand, if you want a life -size humanoid, you will have to pay a minimum of $ 175,000. In mid -range, you can also have a removable model worth $ 150,000.
Faced with a constantly evolving sector, Geoffrey Hinton, winner of the last Nobel Prize in Physics and considered as one of the Fathers of AI, however issues some reservations. In October 2023 on Xthe physicist already made his forecasts: 10% of chance “that AI, if it is not strongly regulated, will lead to the extinction of humanity in the next 30 years”. He now estimates this risk at “20%”.