Toshiba's signing android at Japan's CEATEC this week

Following in the footsteps of Hiroshi Ishiguro's eerily lifelike creations, Toshiba introduced its very own take on the human-looking droid at Japan's CEATEC electronics trade show this week. The communication android has been built to communicate in Japanese sign language, requiring fluid and precise movement of its arms and hands.

The result of an in-house ideas program, the android has the look of a young Japanese woman, complete with blinking eyes and a "warm smile." Its human-like appearance and ability to emulate human expressions come courtesy of work undertaken by aLab Inc. and Osaka University, while the Shibaura Institute of Technology brought driving and sensor technologies to the party. Toshiba used its experience with industrial robots to create a custom algorithm to facilitate the movement of 43 actuators in the robot's joints.

It's still early days for the project, with the signing robot currently capable of simple greetings and phrases only, though Toshiba is aiming to have progressed to such a degree that the android will be capable of acting as a receptionist or exhibition guide within the next year.

There are plans to introduce speech recognition and synthesis technology for natural communication, with development continuing towards introducing a welfare and healthcare service robot for the elderly and folks suffering dementia by 2020, allowing carers or family members to keep watch on loved ones.

You can judge for yourselves how effective the comms android is at this early stage of the project in the video below.

为老年人开发的健谈伴侣机器人

东芝签署的android这个星期

继在石黑浩的怪异栩栩如生创作的脚步，东芝推出了自己的起飞对人类模样的机器人在日本的CEATEC电子产品贸易展这个星期。通信机器人已建成的日本手语沟通，要求其胳膊和手液和精确的运动。

一个内部的想法程序的结果是，Android有一个年轻的日本女子的外观，配有闪烁眼睛和一个“温暖的笑容。”它类似人类的外观和模仿人类表情的能力来礼貌由ALAB公司和大阪大学开展的工作，而技术的芝浦工业大学带来的驾驶技术和传感器技术的一方。东芝采用了与工业机器人的经验来创建自定义算法，以促进机器人的关节43驱动器的运动。

它仍然处于初期阶段的项目，签约机器人目前能够只简单的问候和短语，虽然东芝是针对已经发展到这样的程度，使得Android将能作为未来一年内的接待员或展览指南。

有计划推出语音识别和合成技术带来自然的沟通，与发展继续朝着引入福利和医疗服务机器人为老年人和人患老年痴呆症，到2020年，使护理人员或家庭成员守望亲人。

则可判定为自己如何有效的通讯科Android是在项目的在下面的视频的早期阶段.