Ricky Ma, a Hong Kong product and graphic designer, grew up watching cartoons about robot
adventures and dreamed of one day building his own, like many other children whose imaginations
were sparked by animated films. Ma, at the age of 42, on the other hand, has realized his childhood
dream by successfully constructing a life-sized robot from scratch on his home's balcony.
Hey folks, welcome back to AI science. Drop a like on this video and subscribe
to the channel to help us grow and be part of the Science community!
Ricky Ma, the Mark 1 robot after, became obsessed with androids as a child.
The robot is finally finished after spending $50,000 (£35,000) and laboring for a year and
a half on his home's balcony, and Ma is looking for investors to buy her.
Mark 1 has a 3D printed skeleton, and 3D printing was used to create 70% of the body. Silicone
wraps around and hides the robot's mechanical and electronic interior,
giving her a human-like appearance. Her brows and the muscles around her eyes can also move, relax,
and tense, thanks to facial motors. When Mark 1 is spoken to, she can respond by moving motors
to produce a convincing facial expression, such as raising her eyebrows in surprise or even winking.
Ma claims that he had to master complex skills such as computer programming and electromagnetics,
as well as create accurate 3D models of all the parts that needed to be printed. Ma adds he had
to figure out how to successfully fit the robot's skin over the components through a time-consuming
trial-and-error method. "I figured I'd just do it when the time is right and fulfill my dream."
If my dream comes true, I will have no regrets in life. Many people would say things like, 'Are you
stupid?' during this process. This is an expensive endeavor. Do you even know what you're doing?
"It's extremely difficult," Ma told Reuters. "When you put it all together,
it was really difficult." Hiroshi Ishiguro, an Osaka University Department of Systems
Innovation professor who has been developing robots for over 20 years, unveiled Otonaroid
and Kodomorid in 2015 at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
(Miraikan) in Tokyo. His permanent exhibition created a buzz around the world
and frightened many people because the robots look almost exactly like the humans
they were modeled after and are meant to make people rethink what it means to be human.
Ishiguro and Shanghai Shenqing Industry (SSI) collaborated in April to create YangYang,
a female robot that looks like a middle-aged woman and can talk, move its head,
shake hands, and even hug a human. Toshiba collaborated with Ishiguro to create
ChihiraAico, a Japanese woman hostess robot that was tried as a receptionist in an uptown
department store in Tokyo in April 2015. Hanson Robotics, a Chinese company that's
made waves with its AI tech that uses cameras and computer algorithms to allow its robots
Sophia and Han to detect and understand people's facial expressions, as well as
recognize individuals, hold a conversation, and respond appropriately with their own expressions.
However, the issue is one of precedent.
Is it possible for a man to build a robot that looks exactly like his love interest
if he cannot earn the attention of the woman he desires? Is there any legal recourse if
someone creates a ScarJo bot, a Beyonce bot, or a bot of you? People make dolls and wax replicas
of celebrities all the time. The distinction here is that Mark 1 moves, smiles, and winks.
"It becoming animate all of a sudden feels too invasive for some reason," said Ryan Calo,
a law professor at the University of Washington.
Scarlett Johansson could almost certainly sue Ma if he profited commercially in any way from this,
including the notoriety he has gained. This isn't the first time someone has created a robot that
looks like a celebrity. According to Calo in a recent paper, Samsung ran a series of ads in
the early 1990s that featured a robot in a fancy dress and a blonde wig turning letters on a wall,
clearly resembling Wheel of Fortune star Vanna White, even if the bot did have a metal face.
White filed a lawsuit and won, demonstrating that "Samsung spent a lot of money on the ads,
and they also paid Morton Downey Jr. a lot of money to be in the other ads,"
according to Calo. The same thing happened when two robots dressed as Cliff and Norm from Cheers
were installed in an airport bar. The actors who played those characters, John Ratzenberger
and George Wendt, also sued, but the case was settled before it reached the Supreme Court.
However, Ma built the robot in his home and may not profit from it.
"So Scarlett Johansson may face more First Amendment pushback here," Calo said.
Reuters reports that Ma is hoping to sell his robot to an investor,
which would give Scarlett Johansson more legal grounds to sue. Mark 1 isn't very smart. She
only has a few canned responses to keep her interlocutor entertained. When you tell her
she's beautiful, the corners of her mouth raise slightly in a smile, and her brows relax as if
she's embarrassed to accept the compliment. The expression is astonishingly realistic. In reality,
making a replica doll is not difficult. The American Girl doll collection enables any
parent to create a lifelike replica of their child. That is most emphatically not illegal.
Numerous different robotics labs, including Japan's Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories, one of
the world's most advanced and well-funded robotics labs, have created more meticulous robotic
replicas of humans. The fact that Man created his Frankenstein-like creation in his apartment
is what makes it so remarkable. "There's no doubt that as robotics technology becomes more
accessible, we'll see an increase in attempts to create your own personalized Kim Kardashian,
for example," says Margot Kaminski, an Ohio State University law professor. "And I have no doubt
that there will be a gendered component to this. Siri and Cortana are both female; if robots exist
to perform labor or personal assistance, there's a good chance they'll be female."
This isn't Johanssen's first encounter with men who go above and beyond to get close to her. In
2012, a cyberstalker who hacked her computer and stole nude photos of the actress was sentenced to
ten years in prison. However, in this case, Johansson is literally being objectified.
How would you like to have an identical robot twin? Would you embrace this idea or do you think
it's just a creepy? Besides there being more focus on humanoid female robots, it wouldn't
be a surprise if the male robot will make a big evolution. It will not take long before the world
would knows what it's like to have a humanoid robot twin of their own and to control or be
controlled, as AI advances and robotic technology becomes cheaper and easier to create at home.
Ma, who believes that the importance of robots will only grow,
hopes that an investor will purchase his prototype, providing him with the funds to
build more and that he will write a book about his experience to assist other enthusiasts.
Artificial intelligence is still in its early stages, and walking,
talking robots from science fiction are still far toward off. We don't always respond logically
to universal emotional motivators like love, loneliness, and the desire for companionship.
Robotics and artificial intelligence are among the disruptive labor market changes predicted by the
World Economic Forum to result in a net loss of 5.1 million jobs over the next five years.
If you enjoyed this video, please check out our other videos. If you find this info helpful,
please give us a thumbs up and subscribe for more, it would mean much to us,
it also encourages us to produce more valuable content to y’all! If you have a specific topic
you'd like to learn, please leave us a comment below and we'll work on it for you! Until then!