Hiroshi Ishiguro's childhood. A Japanese scientist created a robot to replace himself. I'm afraid I don't have enough money

The head of the robotics laboratory at Osaka University, Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, recently came to Moscow to speak at the TEDx Park Kultury conference “Man-2112”. Ishiguro managed to get closer to creating an interactive robot that completely copies human behavior. His robots play in the theater, talk and even give lectures. According to Ishiguro, it will be impossible to imagine life without androids in a 21st century metropolis: in the future they will be able to replace humans in almost all areas of activity. In an interview with The Village, Ishiguro explained exactly where new technologies will be used, why robots should be anthropomorphic, and how the city will change in the next decade.

ROBOTS ISHIGURO HIROSHI

ABOUT GEMINOIDS

We will no longer be able to stop in technical development. At all stages of civilization, people have improved technology to make their lives easier. Washing dishes, cleaning - this is not human work, and it must be done by robots. We now have dishwashers and washing machines, but the human brain is best suited to interact with human beings. And even small children and old people can work with the robot.

So far my project is unique, but large companies are seriously interested in my developments and, moreover, are already ready to implement these technologies in life. The first commercial application of my robots is in store windows. For example, we had one display case in Tokyo on Valentine’s Day: the Geminoid F robot sat in the display window and waited for a call from her prince charming. We want to open a similar storefront in Hong Kong in the near future.

The main goal of Osaka University Robotics Laboratory is understand people.

ABOUT COMPETING WITH PEOPLE

Robots will be able to do jobs that don't require humans. And I don’t only mean purely technical things, such as cleaning or working in factories - robots will be able to read news on television and teach children at school. Yes, I believe that human teachers are not needed. The teacher's task is to convey information, and the computer will do it better than man. Multimedia technologies make it possible to more successfully absorb information. And motivation also does not come from teachers, it appears in a person when communicating with friends: he wants to be better than his friends.

Ishiguro and his geminoid clone starred in an action movie in 2009 "Surrogates"

I am also sure that the entertainment industry will change in the future: robots, for example, will be able to act in the theater. I am convinced that they will be able to portray human emotions better than the person himself. After all, human capabilities are limited, but technological development is not. Geminoid F successfully played a small role in the theater.

Robots will even be created for sex. The Internet has become so popular because you can find porn there. 70% of searches are related to sex. People spend millions and a huge amount of time to find a partner. Moreover, I’m not sure that everyone is looking for a person who will love them. I personally don’t. So, of course, sex robots will appear. I myself do not develop such things and do not intend to, but I think there will be craftsmen.

ABOUT THE FUTURE OF CITIES

I can’t say that everything I’m talking about will appear, but it is clear that cars will increasingly enter our lives. They will change the city: driverless transport, e-tailers, musicians, actors... How soon can this happen? To answer this question, just remember how long it took for the mobile phone to penetrate our lives. Three years maximum! The same thing happened with computers and the Internet. Just imagine, our lives have completely changed in three years. And it will be the same with robots. This is a matter of five, maximum ten years.

Ishiguro is the author of more 300 publications and books

What will people do? Anything, but I don’t think there will be an unemployment problem. To be honest, I don’t think about it at all. The task of a scientist is to develop technologies, and how to use them is up to society to decide, for this purpose they carry out round tables, expert advice and more. You know, nuclear scientists gave us nuclear power plants and the nuclear bomb, but the blame for using this bomb to harm people does not lie with the scientists.

I don't model the future, I'm not God. My task is simple - to understand myself and humanity, this is what I try to do through my research. I don’t think about what the world of the future will look like, I don’t build an ideal picture so as not to be disappointed later, I just do my job, for which I get paid. In fact, no one knows what will happen there - we are just developing technology.

ABOUT OFFICIALS

It will take two or even three hundred years before a robot can become the mayor of any city. There will also be more robots in government and government agencies. You have a lot of officials, and most of them do nothing - they just take money. This needs to stop. In Japan, for example, passport control at the border is carried out automatically, but here I have seen hundreds of people doing primitive mechanical work. This shouldn't happen. However, robots will not help you defeat corruption. To defeat it, you just need to kick out the corrupt officials. There is no other way - this is not a question of technology, it is a question of the development of society.

ABOUT COMMUNICATION AND EMOTIONS

Will robots communicate with each other? In fact, my robots interact via the Internet, collaborate and exchange information. Communication with people is also possible. My robot, for example, drives

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Career

In 1991 he defended his dissertation. Since 2003, professor at Osaka University. He heads a laboratory in which he creates robots that can coexist with people.

Awards

Included in the list of One Hundred Living Geniuses (2007)

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In 1991 he defended his dissertation. Since 2003, professor at Osaka University. He heads a laboratory in which he creates robots that can coexist with people.

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Included in the list of One Hundred Living Geniuses (2007)

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The famous scientist, creator of geminoids and telenoids, head of the robotics laboratory at Osaka University (Japan), Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, will visit the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) and give two open lectures.

Professor Ishiguro will give lectures at Skoltech. Poster: Skoltech

On May 14 from 14:00 to 15:30 Professor Ishiguro will give a lecture “Androids and our future life" On May 15 from 12:00 to 14:00 there will be a lecture “Adaptation to radio-controlled anthropomorphic robots.”

Hiroshi Ishiguro was born in 1964 and became involved in robotics in the 1990s. In 1991, he received a PhD in Engineering from the Graduate School of Engineering Science at Osaka University, then worked at the universities of Kyoto, California, and Wakayama. In 2003, he headed the robotics laboratory at Osaka University.

Hiroshi Ishiguro became widely known for his work in the field of creating “realistic” robots and his performances at numerous exhibitions and conferences. One of his most famous creations is his “double” - an interactive robot that almost completely copies human behavior and looks like Professor Ishiguro himself. Robots created by the scientist play in the theater, talk and even give lectures.

The Android, created in the image and likeness of Professor Ishigura, appeared back in 2006 and was called Geminoid HI-1. This robot is so advanced that it can replace a professor in teaching at Osaka University - but students do not immediately notice the substitution.

In 2009, Professor Ishiguro created the female robot Geminoid F, which can, for example, act as a secretary in an office or greet guests at the entrance to a restaurant. She smiles, looks at her interlocutor, blinks, talks. In 2010, through the work of Hiroshi Ishiguru, a “telenoid” the size of a child appeared, and in 2011, an “elfoid” was released - a mini-robot that fits in the palm of your hand.

Hiroshi Ishiguro strives to reveal the secrets of cognition, communication, and perception. Do humanoid robots scare people and how can they overcome this fear? Will androids be able to replace humans with uninteresting ones that do not require creativity work? What is a person and what is a robot? The professor raises these and many other questions in his works.

In his lecture at Skoltech, Professor Ishiguro, one of the pioneers in the study of interactive robots, will touch on an important topic: what awaits us in the near future with the penetration of robots into our society. The professor will talk about the possibilities of the robotic world and introduce listeners to androids, which will very soon penetrate many areas of our lives.