[New post] SHIRI, A Japanese Butt Robot That Responds to Touch

New post on Laughing Squid SHIRI, A Japanese Butt Robot That Responds to Touch by Rusty Blazenhoff http://youtu.be/vhHo6CUq4-o Information Systems graduate student Nobuhiro Takahashi at Tokyo's University of Electro-Communications has been working on SHIRI, a "humanoid buttocks robot" that is primed to express "various emotions with organic movement of the artificial muscles." In the video, this butt robot is shown reacting to being spanked, slapped, caressed and stroked. The giver feels SHIRI brace (at the 2:32 mark) and express a "happiness" response (at the 2:47 mark). via Gizmodo Japan and Kotaku Rusty Blazenhoff | May 11, 2012 at 1:26 pm | Categories: Anatomy, Japan, Robots, Science | URL: http://wp.me/p4t6s-Fb7 Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://laughingsquid.com/shiri-a-japanese-butt-robot-that-responds-to-touch/