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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHong Kong man makes robot modelled after Hollywood actress
HONG KONG - Like innumerable children with imaginations fired by animated films, Hong Kong product and graphic designer Ricky Ma grew up watching cartoons featuring the adventures of robots, and dreamt of building his own one day.
Unlike most of the others, however, Ma has realised his childhood dream at the age of 42, by successfully constructing a life-sized robot from scratch on the balcony of his home.
The fruit of his labours of a year-and-a-half, and a budget of more than $50,000, is a female robot prototype he calls the Mark 1, modelled after a Hollywood star whose name he wants to keep under wraps. It responds to a set of programmed verbal commands spoken into a microphone.
"I figured I should just do it when the timing is right and realise my dream. If I realise my dream, I will have no regrets in life," said Ma, who had to learn about fields completely new to him before he could build the complex gadget.
Besides simple movements of its arms and legs, turning its head and bowing, Ma's robot, which has dark blonde hair and liquid eyes, and wears a grey skirt and cropped top, can create detailed facial expressions.
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Hong Kong man makes robot modelled after Hollywood actress (Original Post)
yuiyoshida
Apr 2016
OP
"Mrs. Ma? Yes, we've had some neighborhood complaints about what your son is doing on the balcony."
Gidney N Cloyd
Apr 2016
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Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)1. I'm just not ready for this (yet)!
djean111
(14,255 posts)2. Scarlett Johansson?
That's kind of creepy. Amazing invention or whatever, but kind of creepy.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)3. I'm guessing a young Kim Cattrall? nt
Response to yuiyoshida (Original post)
Pacifist Patriot This message was self-deleted by its author.
Human101948
(3,457 posts)5. Man stores world's largest "love doll" collection in coffins..
http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/my-crazy-obsession/videos/150-000-love-doll-collection/
He's gonna want this one too!
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)6. "Mrs. Ma? Yes, we've had some neighborhood complaints about what your son is doing on the balcony."
rug
(82,333 posts)7. I don't what to know why he made it.