U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi!

Ok, let's try to big girls and boys while looking at the U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi Virtual Humanoid, a "mixed reality" avatar from Yokohama National University we recently peeped at our Tokyo Reader Meetup after escaping from the NTT DoCoMo labs. Destined to support you in your state of involuntary abstinence, the U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi system maps a pretty girl onto the robot's anatomically correct, green-cloth surface with the help of a sensor-equipped head-mounted display worn by the lonely, lonely man. The result is a 3D character you can touch and "interact" with. Researcher Michihiko Shoji hopes that the system can be commercialized for arcades and for general use around the home. Slather her up with artificial human skin and you've bunged the hole Tux could never quite fill. Also available in a chubby doughboy model if that's how you roll. Video? Oh hells yeah, right after the break.

[Via Impress]

[master_sword @ Oct 12th 2007 8:07AM]

That guy has obviously never held a girl's hand before...And the overall idea sorta creeps me out.

[Darwin @ Oct 12th 2007 8:54AM]

Obviously. Because that GUY is a WOMAN. Try taking a closer look at the picture. Or maybe you have never seen a woman before.

[PJK @ Oct 12th 2007 9:09AM]

If thats a guy then I must have turned because he's got a nice ass.

[Shane @ Oct 12th 2007 9:32AM]

Domo arigato mrs roboto...

[deedeedee @ Oct 12th 2007 9:36AM]

i swear the japanese are developing these things either for the ultimate sex toy or giant military ninja mechs to take over the world, consider yourself warned!

[ssuk @ Oct 12th 2007 9:42AM]

Well, you're right there... The Japanese either create things which revolutionise how we perceive things or just do it to entise small asian cock to stand up and be accounted for. But given the ammount of detail put into the 3D model... I would have to go with the latter.

[blade417 @ Oct 12th 2007 9:58AM]

@ PJK

Nice ass? That thing looks like 2 little eggs gasping for air.

[Paris @ Oct 12th 2007 10:59AM]

Not a nice ass at all. But she does have a pair of boobs that obviously make her a woman.

[MikeG @ Oct 12th 2007 11:49AM]

master sword = owned.
Even if it was a guy, ever think that maybe touching a 3d generated woman might be pretty weird?
We're not all spotty teenagers whose first thought is to go up the skirt of...well anything in one really.

[master_sword @ Oct 12th 2007 6:39PM]

Ha, wow I did get pwned! Guess I shouldn't try to make sense before I go to school, too early

[dataminer49er @ Oct 12th 2007 8:08AM]

U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi CREEPY!

[Magallanes @ Oct 12th 2007 2:09PM]

Japanese culture can wary between hello kitty and gurochan.

O_O

[Magallanes @ Oct 12th 2007 2:09PM]

ups "vary".

[blade417 @ Oct 12th 2007 8:07AM]

it's only a matter of time before these virtual avatars file a virtual lawsuit for sexual harassment.

[DickHardknocks @ Oct 12th 2007 8:10AM]

"personal humanoids for general use" ????


Well I for one welcome are artifical gynoid sex slaves - especially If I can get one that looks like Cortana.

[DickHardknocks @ Oct 12th 2007 8:10AM]

"personal humanoids for general use" ????


Well I for one welcome our artifical gynoid sex slaves - especially If I can get one that looks like Cortana.

[remrof @ Oct 12th 2007 12:43PM]

"personal humanoids for general use" ????


Well I for one welcome our artifical gynoid sex slaves - especially If I can get one that looks like Cortana.

[Xzavier @ Oct 12th 2007 8:15AM]

Well... I guess I know what I am going to trade in my blow-up doll for!!!

[- k E n - @ Oct 12th 2007 8:33PM]

well, i wouldn't trade that blow up doll just yet.

For a blowup doll, you at least get some degree of realism (i assume that a blowup doll has some skin like material over "some parts" having never seen one myself) and see yourself doing it in full detail, real world technicolour, etc.

For this "thing", not only is your "partner" a robot with cold joints and possible painful innards, you have to content with seeing everything in pixelated and what looks like 16bit colour scheme.

Or, you could always learn to socialize and get a real girl. :)

[Joe V @ Oct 12th 2007 8:54AM]

The Japanese have finally sated our desire for hot girl-on-femmbot action!

[DT @ Oct 12th 2007 8:31AM]

Did you say "bung hole"?

[Joe V @ Oct 12th 2007 8:32AM]

"Oh Fry... I love you more than the moon and the stars and the POETIC IMAGE NUMBER 37 NOT FOUND"

[Holger @ Oct 12th 2007 8:33AM]

Hm... tbh I don't find this as "perverted" as you've laid it out...

it's quite interesting, as the robot gives a better "reality" feel with the force feedback and updating the rendered model according to this interference from the eral person.

[suv4x4 @ Oct 12th 2007 11:30AM]

"Hm... tbh I don't find this as "perverted" as you've laid it out..."

Me neither, but perversion is in the eye of the beholder, and this is Engadget after all :)

[strider_mt2k @ Oct 12th 2007 8:52AM]

"...and this is where I have sex with my own personal sex bot. Do you sleep with a robot?"

"I sleep in a big bed with my wife."

"Oh."

[daaper @ Oct 12th 2007 9:04AM]

Ah, a Futurama AND Simpsons quote in the same article. I've finallyfound my home away from home...

Let's throw this in, just for good measure:

"I am an Automaton Nucular Neohuman Android; you may call me ANNA. I am a robot ninja from the planet England who is here to destroy you and free this land from your tyranny."

[seoultrain @ Oct 12th 2007 2:36PM]

hahaha bravo on the family guy.

[oshean @ Oct 12th 2007 9:09AM]

Can I cover my girlfriend in the chroma key suit and make her look like a super model?

Imagine the possibilities for role-playing fetishes! Uh..Um....not that I have one.

[samson @ Oct 12th 2007 9:10AM]

It was only a matter of time before robots replaced the world's oldest profession too.

[reese @ Oct 12th 2007 9:17AM]

"Lizzard, am I standing in poop?"

[L. Cyphre @ Oct 12th 2007 9:26AM]

Japan - making real women obsolete since 2007.

[stinhoutx @ Oct 12th 2007 9:53AM]

The ultimate Wii boxing add-on accessory!

The suggestion to put the green-cloth on a real person with this system is pretty cool, too.

[Matt @ Oct 12th 2007 9:31AM]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All you guys, even engadget got it wrong! Did you even watch the video before commenting? This is not a tool for lonely men; it is a tool for lezbos who cannot find a date! I noticed right away in the pic. Noticed what you say? The "guy" in the picture is a "girl". Check the wire coming from the headset... Do you see her chest? Those are obviously small buzzungas. Then if you just check the video clip you'll see right away that the researcher is a woman. Anyway, I just wanted to point that out.

[Modano @ Oct 12th 2007 1:20PM]

"the japanese are developing these things either for the ultimate sex toy or giant military ninja mechs to take over the world,"

Why is this an either/or situation?

[Me @ Oct 12th 2007 9:39AM]

I'd hit it.

[Typhoid Mary @ Oct 12th 2007 10:19AM]

Looks like someone beat you to it. Literally.

[tony @ Oct 12th 2007 9:46AM]

You know you said "bunged the hole" and "chubby" in the same article? What kind of place is this?
!

[Oracle @ Oct 12th 2007 9:53AM]

Yeap... creepy Japanese with yet another creepy idea

[nathan.wong @ Oct 12th 2007 10:01AM]

This is just plain creepy. However, it reminds me of that Futurama episode where the humans were using robots as partners instead of people. The entire civilized world went to pots because people got what they wanted in a mate so there was no reason to strive for anything. ("PHILLIP J. FRY!" A quote from Lucy Liu).

[b_a_boone @ Oct 12th 2007 10:04AM]

Is it just me or does the thing look like it's 10-12 years old. Calling all pedafiles you don't have to go to the playground anymore.

[Dave @ Oct 12th 2007 11:04AM]

This is the sort of thing we have to be really careful about.
A pedophile is a foot fetishist.
A paedophile is a child molester.
Please never confuse the two, foot fetishists are mainly harmless, while paedophiles seldom are.

(A pedafile is maybe a file about feet or a dumb spelling error. I suppose it could be a trade name for a corn removal rasp)

[OuroborosATX @ Oct 12th 2007 11:41AM]

Actually in US English "pedophile" is correct, but you are right about that "pedafile" thing not being a word

[kentavos @ Oct 12th 2007 10:19AM]

Just had to give engadget and Thomas Ricker major props for such an awesome blog post. Geek satire taken to a whole new level. The Tux comment is genius.

[HineyWipe @ Oct 12th 2007 10:47AM]

"Can I take a virtual baseball bat to that virtual beeyatch???"

[Splicer261 @ Oct 12th 2007 11:08AM]

I'm telling you man..

Ghost in the shell will be a reality!

[capn @ Oct 12th 2007 11:40AM]

i'll wait for the olivia munn version to be uploaded.

[Wes @ Oct 12th 2007 11:42AM]

Looks like just the thing for my lovenasium.

Kif, I've just made it with a hot virtuarobohoney. Inform the troops.

[Wes @ Oct 12th 2007 11:42AM]

Looks like just the thing for my lovenasium.

Kif, I've just made it with a hot virtuarobohoney. Inform the troops.

[The ZeroCorpse @ Oct 12th 2007 12:10PM]

U-Tsu-Shi-O-Mi + Fleshlight = Out of work hookers.

[injate @ Oct 12th 2007 12:22PM]

What did the five fingers say to the face? SLAP!