HRP-4C A Supermodel Woman Robot

By Ananda Perwira on Friday, March 20, 2009
Filled Under: lifestyle, technology

Have you ever seen models walking on a catwalk? Another case if the model is a robot. HRP-4C, a fashion robot model that can talk like real human, developed by AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) in Japan, costs £150,000 or $210,685. With 30 motor activators in the body, this woman robot with 158 centimeter (62 inch) height and weight of 43 kilograms (95 lbs) can walk in several poses.

The woman robot has black hair with 8 internal motors in her face, so that she can show some emotional expression like angry or shock. The HRP-4C robot is scheduled to start her first debut in a fashion show in Tokyo next week, or on March 23.

Although it is a robot, the HRP-4C has graceful side of women, can blink her eyes and make sound. According to the developer team in Japan, the robot is far more perfect compare to the other robots, and probably can replace the human models in fashion show catwalk.

Disney Works on Car Race Game

By Ananda Perwira on Monday, March 9, 2009
Filled Under: entertainment, software

Walt Disney Co., the giant on world’s animation industry, now is preparing for its finest car race game. It plans to make this car race game on Disney’s animation characters along with storyline that goes with each one of those characters.

More on the project of making this game, they have mentioned the name for this race game is “Split/Second”, which is compatible for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC. It plans to launch this car race game on the beginning of 2010 and the launching will be on off-road car race concept.

So far, video game market is still promising, even though music and DVD market have fallen down. DFC Intelligence predicted the development of video game market, online, via console or PC game, would keep growing on progress. On this year, the profit from video game business is estimated reach US$ 57 billion, it means growing up to US$ 30 billion on the last three years.