Robot humanoide de piel artificial llamado Geminoid - DK

2. • The Geminoid-DK is a tele-operated
Android in the geminoid series. it is made
to appear as an exact copy of its master,
Asc. Professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg
University. Dr. Scharfe is also the principle
investigator of the Geminoid-DK research
project.

3. • The name Geminoid-DK indicates
• 1) the lineage of research, and
• 2) the localization to Denmark.

4. Making of the Geminoid - The Head
• The process begins by meassuring the body of the
original. Then the head, hands, and teeth are molded
in order to make an exact copy. Molding the head
involves buckets of silicone material to be poured over
the head. An outher layer of plaster is used to stabalize
the mold. for the actual molding, the head of the
original is covered for about half an hour.

5. • In the picture to left, the
silicone skin is placed on a
specially designed skin
stand to protect the shape
while work is performed on
the mechanical parts of the
robot.
• It is the skin stand that
cause the disturbing lack of
eye balls. The wire sticking
out of the head above the
eye is used to attach the
skin to the inside
mechanics.

6. • The skull holds the glass
eyes and the molds of the
teeth. Both parts are
fastened to mechanical
structure that allows for
movement inside the head.
• This design choice is what
makes the Gemionid-DK
able to have autonomous
movements that are more
typical masculine than that
the F model allows for.

7. • Now the skin can be attached
to the skull. And we are ready
for the final stages of
preparations of the robot.
• In a sense, the head is like a
photo. It is a representation of
something else. But the nature
of the 3D scuplture in near-organic
skin texture makes this
representation something else.
In certain ways we can almost
say that the design of the head
paves the road for a display of
personality. In the same sense
as a really succesfull photo may
capture the personality of a
person, this model can also
capture aspects of personality
traits.

8. Making of the Geminoid
• Movement is of course what sets a robot
apart from a doll or wax figure. Even though
the exterior of the robot had still to be
finished, the first movements were something
we all looked forward to.

9. History of the research
• The first geminoid was build in 2005 by
Hiroshi Ishiguro of ATR and the Tokyo-based
firm, Kokoro. Professor Ishiguro designed the
original geminoid as a tool to study the
important notion of presence. Sonzai-kan. The
original geminoid - named HI-1 after its
master still works at the lab at ATR.