{"id":10025,"date":"2010-02-15T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=10025"},"modified":"2010-02-15T10:19:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:19:03","slug":"there-will-be-robots-south-koreas-actress-bot-continues-to-act-refuses-to-work-with-keau-reeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/02\/there-will-be-robots-south-koreas-actress-bot-continues-to-act-refuses-to-work-with-keau-reeves\/","title":{"rendered":"There Will Be Robots: South Korea’s Actress-Bot Continues to Act, Refuses to Work with Keanu Reeves"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Universe tends to acknowledge our meatspace conversations with news from the World. A recent debate with @Rick_Snee<\/a> over making robots that look like us(our view) versus robots that look like rejects <\/a>from Tom Selleck’s RUNAWAY<\/a>(his view) was put on pause. Then South Korea raises its voice and reminds that actress-bot EveR-3 is still around and continues to act to a full house.<\/p>\n

Notice the form she takes. That makes the score @Groonk<\/a> – 1 to @Rick_Snee<\/a> – 0.<\/p>\n

Of course we’re keeping score.<\/p>\n

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\nEveR-3 (Eve Robot 3) starred in various dramas last year including the government-funded “Dwarfs” which attracted a full house, said Lee Ho-Gil, of the state-run Korea Institute of Industrial Technology.<\/p>\n

The lifelike EveR-3 is 157 centimetres (five feet, two inches) tall, can communicate in Korean and English, and can express a total of 16 facial expressions — without ever forgetting her lines<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lee acknowledged that robot actresses find it hard to express the full gamut of emotions and also tend to bump into props and fellow (human) actors.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

South Korea has in addition developed a walking robot maid, a robotic penguin, koala and rabbit, and a variety of other models.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elsewhere on GNET:<\/p>\n