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 LIMA. - The humanoid robot can walk down the street in ten years and live with humans without them being aware they are electronic in nature, said today in Lima, a professor at the University of Aalborg (Denmark), Henrik Scharfe, who has created a robot with the same appearance.
During the inauguration of ExpoTic 2012, the first international exhibition and conference infrastructure and technological innovation that takes place in Lima until Saturday, Scharfe presented Geminoid-DK, a robot created in his image and likeness, able to imitate your facial movements and talks with his ideologue.
At a conference, Scharfe said his robotic clone, which currently sits and connected to a computer, you can walk down the street and interact with other people "in just a decade, if at that time advanced infrastructure is built, converging sources technological and took laboratory androids. "
So far the robot has been used to experience the interaction of people with him, took oral exams to students Scharfe and has even attended a party at his house.
"To see a humanoid walking among us only need to improve existing technology, such as battery life, systems for obstacle avoidance and navigation systems," he added.
However, Scharfe said "it is impossible and irrelevant to think of what technology will be in 10, 50 or 100 years, because just as we can not know what stories will be counted at that time or what music is composed."
Thus, he argued that the solution to the problems of humanity in the future will not be technology, but technology will be the channel or tool by which the solutions are feasible.
The Danish professor explained that this development will lead to the androids or humanoids occupying functions of a personal assistant, "such as email management," but also public service, "as a model to explain the buyer characteristics of clothing that are interested in buying. "
Scharfe noted that this situation will be normal because "humans treat a robot as another human being if it looks like a person, although now it is surprising to see an android that serves the public or simply traveling plane. "
"It's very difficult for people to develop emotional reactions to a robot in a car factory with a metal body, square, strong and dangerous-looking, but it is much easier if the robot has a human face and it helps us at home , although we know that inside is electronic, "he continued.
However, the creator of Geminoid-DK has found that the reactions of a person before a human-like android vary according to "age, gender and the situation where there is interaction."
"So we will be cautious when these androids coexist with us and, at the time of manufacture, should be monitored very well what their role and the target audience they address," he added.
Androids in its most novice also has space at the fair with a school competition, whose creations must complete a circuit in the shortest time possible and only with the help of their detectors.
In addition, we also present the latest innovations in interactive video games and a platform for citizen security offenses receive notices with photos or videos, through telephones, cell phones, Twitter or terminals for credit card payments.

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