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Another job lost to robots

Erica, a robot created by Japanese roboticists Hiroshi Ishiguro and Kohei Ogawa is going to be in a movie. The movie, b, is now in development and written by Special Effects Supervisor Eric Pham, actor Tarek Zohdy, and Sam Khoze, who is listed in IMDB as producer and robot enthusiast. An early incarnation of Erica at Osaka University in 2015. ...

Kathleen Maher

Erica, a robot created by Japanese roboticists Hiroshi Ishiguro and Kohei Ogawa is going to be in a movie. The movie, b, is now in development and written by Special Effects Supervisor Eric Pham, actor Tarek Zohdy, and Sam Khoze, who is listed in IMDB as producer and robot enthusiast. An early incarnation of Erica at Osaka University in 2015. (Source: resou.osaka)   Erica is one in a long line of robots created by Hiroshi Ishiguro and his team at Osaka University. The team’s work is concentrated on HRI, human-robot interaction. Erica is a descendent of the Actroid robot introduced
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