This robot right here is the Geminoid DK , an android clone ofProfessor Henrik Scharfeof Denmark ’s Aalborg University . It was built in conjunction with automaton manufacturer Kokoro ( who builtRaptor Santa Claus ) and famed roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro of the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Nara , Japan .
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The prof have yet to expatiate why they built a robotic knockoff of Professor Scharfe , but then again , does one really need a reason to build up an android facsimile of oneself ? concord to Scharfe ’s married woman , they should send his remote - command doppelganger “ to conferences and stuff ” in place of the real thing .
Scharfe is the managing director of the Center for Computer - mediated Epistemology at Aalborg , so hazard are he ’s trying to A. ) get into his twin ’s mechanically skillful head teacher ; or B. ) get out of teach Robo - Epistemology 101 .
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