![]() ![]() ![]() That was when Ishiguro, knowing Tettchan’s complicated feelings for Miki, said to her, “OK, you should kiss her.” And Miki, looking hesitant, leaned in toward the android-the android inhabited by Tettchan-and kissed it on the cheek. He made Miki and Ishiguro laugh, and watching Miki’s face through the monitor, he could see a change. “This is not Tettchan, this is a new woman, really cute and beautiful.”Īnd so they “played,” making small talk, Tettchan trying out his new female incarnation. “It’s like a real female,” Ishiguro told Miki, enjoying himself. As Tettchan spoke, his voice computer-altered to sound female, the android’s lips moved in sync with his words, the tilt of her head and her long human hair in rhythm with his own movements. Then he invited Tettchan (who was listening in) to talk to him and Miki through the robot. He placed Tettchan at the teleoperation desk and closed the door he took Miki into the other room to meet the Geminoid F. Ishiguro invited them both to his research institute in Nara, where he’d asked his students to have a female android ready for teleoperation. Tettchan, then a game designer based in Tokyo, was recently divorced when he met Ishiguro in 2012, and he mentioned that he was curious about the possibility of a romance with a longtime friend named Miki. ![]() "Around the same time as the department store display, Ishiguro managed to use the Geminoid F to generate a bond between two humans. This is her first piece in Wired - it's rather personal. ![]()
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