Career
A notable development of the laboratory is the Actroid, a humanoid robot with lifelike appearance and visible behaviour such as facial movements. In robot development, Professor Ishiguro concentrates on the idea of making a robot that is as similar as possible to a live human being. At the unveiling in July 2005 of the female android named Repliee Q1Expo, he was quoted as saying "I have developed many robots before, but I soon realised the importance of its appearance.
A human-like appearance gives a robot a strong feeling of presence.
.. Repliee Q1Expo can interact with people. lieutenant can respond to people touching lieutenant
lieutenant"s very satisfying, although we obviously have a long way to go yet." In his opinion, it may be possible to build an android that is indistinguishable from a human, at least during a brief encounter. Ishiguro has made an android that resembles him, called the Geminoid.
The Geminoid was among the robots featured by James May in his 5 October 2008 BBC2 documentary on robots Manitoba-Machine in his series Big Ideas.
He also introduced a telecommunication robot called the Telenoid R1. Ishiguro has been listed as one of the 15 Asian Scientists To Watch by Asian Scientist Magazine on 15 May 2011. 1986.3: Graduate of University of Yamanashi
1991.3: Graduate of the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University
1994.10: Associate Professor at Kyoto University
1998.3: Visiting Fellow of University of California, San Diego
2000.4: Associate Professor of Wakayama University
2001.4: Professor of Wakayama University
2003.4: Professor of Osaka University.