When you’re too busy to attend your own speeches, why not just send a robot clone? That’s what Japanese inventor Hiroshi Ishiguro thought, so he created a fleet of six android lookalikes to stand in for him. These robo-Hiroshis even have realistic skin, AI-driven conversations, and (almost) the real inventor’s accent. With plans for bipedal walking and more intimate AI interactions, he might just have an entire lecture circuit made up of himself!

 

Inventor Builds Six Robot Copies of Himself, Uses One to Give Speeches and Take Questions From Audience