00:00At a museum in Tokyo researchers have set up a workshop where they're looking to prove that robots can be imbued with life . Each a red pill. And try to keep up . Professor Takashi a good guy. He has helped create this thing which looks like it comes straight from X mocking us central casting . Through a series of sensors and artificial intelligence software this android looks out into the world and reacts to what it sees . The Android is in effect evolving based on what its A.I. software seems to like. Basically there are two different mechanisms. One is autonomous rhythm generators. OK a couple of each other. Also there is artificial new and it works spontaneously firing and sending signals to each other . As someone approaches the Android the sensors detect the movement and then the software kicks in to determine how the robot will move in response . But for the moment it has a movement style that could be described as that really drunk guy at the party. Okay so in each one of these sensor boxes right here yes there's two cameras. Yeah. And this is measuring measuring the distance . So when I come closer or further away from the machine then but what has to do something it has to do reactive. Yeah. You guys will add more and more sensors. Yeah. It can put the right temperature sensors sound sensors many other sensor armed with more sensors the robot can make more judgments about its environment and more nuanced reactions . Over time the movements and gurgles change the thinking is that the robot will eventually form its own personality and possibly even language wants to deal with the noise. Is that hungry. This sound is a design by my student and behavior is modifying those sounds. The sound is changing all the time . It's more like you know a primitive language. That's I think the interesting part of it. Right. Our babies we don't have to tell everything to the baby. But baby can learn unconsciously by interacting with people just with environment . Once we have a bunch of life systems around us maybe our concept of what is alive will be very much different. And if we want to coexist with robots then we maybe have to learn different languages and different way of thinking . So that doesn't freak you out. You think that's just this. I think it's much more ideal to me compared with this very violent or the right now Well thank you for letting me see your Android. Thank you . Thank you. She said something I think he said he likes you .

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Hello World Japan: The Future Looks Like a Drunk Robot

Japan has a unique fascination with androids and the quest to make robots more like humans. One of the country’s most original thinkers in this area is Professor Takashi Ikegami of the University of Tokyo. He has created androids filled with sensors and artificial intelligence software. The technology allows them to perceive the outside world and react to it as they see fit. Hello World host Ashlee Vance traveled to Tokyo to meet with Professor Ikegami and see his latest android creation. The robot they encounter flails about and makes strange gurgling noises as it responds to their movements and conversation. While it all looks rudimentary today, the technology is the precursor of what Ikegami predicts will be a new robotic life form that has its own culture, language, and desires. What could go wrong? (Source: Bloomberg)