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Hi, my name is Hiroshi Ishiguro, I'm a Professor of Osaka University
and I'm Group Leader of ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories.
I am a roboticist; at the same time, I guess, yeah, I'm a kind of artist.
Technology is ... well, our innate desire, right?
We never stop to develop the technologies because we have that kind of a gene.
Telenoid is a kind of an unknown character;
nobody knows that that kind of a shape.
Size is a very important factor.
The telenoid is a kind of a child ... a baby size.
We carefully consider which size is the best for many people
and we have decided that size, it's about 80 centimetres
that people can feel the presence of the person by using the small telenoid.
I'm not sure what happen if we make a much bigger telenoid
and being a telenoid probably that's scary
because usually the people are scared of the big robots and the big unknown object, right?
And does the telenoid has a soul?
I think it depends on the user. Now if a user feels that some soul's put on the telenoid
that means the telenoid has a soul, right?
And the same as we can say the same things to the interaction between the human and human, right?
So now we know I'm talking to you and I guess that you have a soul;
therefore you can have a soul. And you guess ... you're thinking I have a soul, right?
But of course, I cannot show you my soul, right?
The same thing happens with the telenoid, right?
So if the user could have and could feel the telenoid's soul
then you know the telenoid really can have a soul.
So now today I'm attending the Experimenta organised by RMIT
and I'm one of the many artists and I'm quite happy to be here and I'm enjoying very much.