[The quest to evoke medium-as-social-actor presence continues with a new robot hand that lets users feel like they’re walking while holding hands with their girlfriend. The story is from SoraNews24, where it includes two different pictures and a one-minute video (also available via YouTube); follow the links at the end for more information (in Japanese). –Matthew]
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Japanese inventors create robot girlfriend hand for lonely people to hold and walk with [Video]
By Casey Baseel
November 3, 2020
A ton of thought went into the clever device, which actually has some heartwarming goals.
Few things in life provide that special mixture of calm reassurance and energizing warmth like going for a long walk hand-in-hand with your sweetheart. But as a group of engineering researchers (Koshiro Shiraki, Toru Notsumata, Moeka Miki, and Takeru Mushika) from Japan’s Gifu University point out, “For some people, finding a girlfriend is very difficult.”… read more. “Japanese inventors create robot girlfriend hand for lonely people to hold and walk with”