Hiroshi Ishiguro Lab · Humanoid · 2010
Geminoid F ('F' for female), unveiled in 2010 by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro (ATR and Osaka University) with animatronics firm Kokoro, is one of the world's most famous ultra-realistic androids — a copy of a real woman in her twenties, with silicone skin and real human hair over a fiber-reinforced-plastic skull. Its design breakthrough was efficiency: where the earlier Geminoid HI-1 (Ishiguro's own copy) used about 50 actuators and a large external compressor box, Geminoid F achieves a convincing 'toothy' smile and a frown with just 12 pneumatic actuators concentrated in the face. It autonomously breathes and blinks, but to fully 'come alive' it's teleoperated: motion-capture software tracks a human operator's facial expressions and head movements and mimics them on the android in real time. It cannot walk — it's always seated — and exists to study human-robot interaction and the nature of 'human presence,' even appearing in theatre productions. It sits within Ishiguro's celebrated android family (Geminoid HI series, Repliee Q1/Q2, Telenoid, Erica). NOTE: specs from IEEE Spectrum + Ishiguro Lab primary sources — museum-grade; recorded honestly as a seated teleoperated android, not a walking biped.
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View full interactive profile, comparisons & videos →| Category | Humanoid |
| Sub-type | Teleoperated Android (gynoid) |
| Status | Active |
| Year | 2010 |
| Origin | Japan |
| Announced | 2010-03 |
| Released | 2010 |
| Frame | Fibre-reinforced-plastic skull; metal & plastic internal frame |
| Degrees of freedom | 12 |
| AI model | Teleoperation - operator's face captured by cameras + face-tracking; expressions reproduced on android; autonomous breathing + blinking; conversation mode |
| Operating system | Windows |
| Actuator type | 12 pneumatic actuators (air servo valves + air servo control system embedded in body; small external compressor); chosen for very human-like, smooth, quiet motion |
| Use cases | Human-robot interaction research, 'Human presence'/telepresence studies, Theatre & performance, Android science |
| Made in | Japan |