I don't want to call "Robot" fake because I have seen my fair share of Japanese built robots such as the Mosimo model on YouTube and even though I've searched for my answer I just can't seem to find a legitimate source that can verify the authenticity of "Robot". I very much like to believe they used a real functioning robot however the size of it teeters my doubts.
Can anyone help me find an answer?
It's a person in a suit. Actress Rachel Ma plays the robot. Photo below.
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm4193432576/nm4567881
The amount it would have cost for an robot capable of those actions would have blown the budget sky high.
The technology (and associated cost) involved just for a robot capable of walking like that are enormous.
Well technically they already have robots that are capable of some of the actions performed in the movie. Certainly some of the finer motor movements and cognitive speech are beyond what robots today can do, but if they really wanted to use a robot to play the robot, they probably would have just rented one from Samsung or Honda...
shareThere is no robot around to mimic the movements required in the film. They were too natural for a machine. It wouldn't have been cost effective, as the closests that exists, would run out it's batteries every 30 minutes.
Im the Alpha and the Omoxus. The Omoxus and the Omega
You can see the robot sway when it's talking and sitting still. Obvious its a human in the suit.
Happen to fall off a cliff. Might as well try to fly.
It also takes a real life robot much longer to perform simple tasks, picking up a glass of water for instance is tediously slow and wouldn't work for a movie.
shareThere is no robot around to mimic the movements required in the film.
First of all I assumed that there was a human inside the robot.
During the end credits they show clips of various robots doing many of the tasks that were shown in the film. I presume those clips were there to show that at some stage in the future there could be robots that could function as they did in the movie.
It is easily seen that there is a person there, by the way it walks.
shareYou see this movie, and the first thing you think is "yeah, that's a real robot!" and then you ask here? You don't see "Rachael Ma ... Robot Performer" listed on the credits? Are you stupid or trolling?
shareHe just really wants it to be real.
Unfortunately it'll take a long time for us to reach that level.
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Two dead giveaways:
1: When the son lifts it out of his trunk. A real robot that size would weigh more than he could have lifted.
2: When the kids are picking on the robot, and they shove him backwards, but he stabilizes himself & doesn't fall. Current ambulatory robots can't quite handle THAT yet.
Current ambulatory robots can't quite handle THAT yet.
That's a FOUR legged insect robot, not a two-legged humanoid.
Jeez ...
Yeah they can in fact handle that. Gyro stuff....
shareCurrent ambulatory robots can't quite handle THAT yet.
So you're as dumb as Monk Drunk?
shareThis is a very stupid question.
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As of 2013, yes the robot's fake. But not for long. Following robotics is one of my hobbies. No single robot can do what Frank's can do yet, but I've seen every single one of those things done by single-purpose research robots in labs this year.
I built my first home computer in 1977. Nobody I knew (but other computer hobbyists) had any idea such things existed, nor had any idea why anyone would want one. 7 years later, in 1984, "The Computer" was Time Magazine's "Person of the Year", and they were changing the world.
This decade, robotics moved into their exponential-growth phase. I currently expect to buy my own "helper" in 2017. A South Korea study estimates a quarter of their households will buy a robot that year.
Not that that's all good news. The Japanese government did a study last year that concluded they'd see permanent 25% unemployment due to robots replacing people by 2020.
It's coming. And not "someday" anymore, but "real soon now". Google bought EIGHT robotics companies in the past six months. They see it, too!
So brace yourselves. The world's about to change...again.
Shame they didn't use this effect with the son's car driving by itself:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b_m8DqTlOLE
I don't want to call "Robot" fake because I have seen my fair share of Japanese built robots such as the Mosimo model on YouTube and even though I've searched for my answer I just can't seem to find a legitimate source that can verify the authenticity of "Robot".