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01.01.1970 //The new model of the Korean of robot- woman will sing ballad.
The Korean singing robot -gumanoid Ever-2 completed debyutnoye appearance, reports Digital Chosunilbo. Robot, by exterior view resembling woman, presented new ballad "I'll close my eyes" on the ceremony of the discovery exhibition Robot World on 2006 18 October. This robot is the "junior sister" of robot Ever-1, which was demonstrated to the public on 4 May of this year. The skin Ever-2 is made from silicone. In the apparatus are build it 60 motors, from which 23 answer for the motion of the "muscles" of face, three for the motion of neck, on six motors it is fallen to each hand, four check each palm and 12 answer for the motions of trunk. Thus, robot is capable to assume all possible poses, and its face can assume the set of different expressions. Machine pronounces 13 consonants and open it is sonic and not only synchronizes the motion of lips with them, but also it pritantsovyvayet into time to music and he talks with the worshippers. It also distinguishes colors and notes the displacement of objects and respectively it reacts to these events. In contrast to robot Ever-1, which was capable to express happiness, melancholy, excitation and spite, Ever-2 moreover it can "experience" fright, discomfort, interest and boredom. An increase in the second version of apparatus is 165 centimeters, what to five centimeters higher than first, and weight - 60 kilograms, by 10 kilograms is more than the weight of predecessor.