大卫汉森有两个小z enos照顾这些天。有他的18个月大的儿子回家，他们喋喋不休的笑容和他的界限，通过他父亲的狭窄处。然后还有机器人回家。它不能发言或步行，但有闪烁的眼睛可以跟踪人脸，迷住了一系列的词句。

(AP) -- David Hanson has two little Zenos to care for these days. There's his 18-month-old son Zeno, who prattles and smiles as he bounds through his father's cramped office. Then there's the robotic Zeno. It can't speak or walk yet, but has blinking eyes that can track people and a face that captivates with a range of expressions.
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At 17 inches tall and 6 pounds, the artificial Zeno is the culmination of five years of work by Hanson and a small group of engineers, designers and programmers at his company, Hanson Robotics. They believe there's an emerging business in the design and sale of lifelike robotic companions, or social robots. And they'll be showing off the robot boy to students in grades 3-12 at the Wired NextFest technology conference Thursday in Los Angeles.
Unlike clearly artificial robotic toys, Hanson says he envisions Zeno as an interactive learning companion, a synthetic pal who can engage in conversation and convey human emotion through a face made of a skin-like, patented material Hanson calls frubber.

"It's a representation of robotics as a character animation medium, one that is intelligent," Hanson beams. "It sees you and recognizes your face. It learns your name and can build a relationship with you."

It's no coincidence if the whole concept sounds like a science-fiction movie.
Hanson said he was inspired by, and is aiming for, the same sort of realism found in the book "Supertoys Last All Summer Long," by Brian Aldiss. Aldiss' story of troubled robot boy David [FS:PAGE]and his quest for the love of his flesh-and-blood parents was the source material for Steven Spielberg's film "Artificial Intelligence: AI."

He plans to make little Zenos available to consumers within the next three years for $200 to $300.

Until then, Hanson, 37, makes a living selling and renting pricey, lifelike robotic heads. His company offers models that look like Albert Einstein, a pirate and a rocker, complete with spiky hair and sunglasses. They cost tens of thousands of dollars and can be customized to look like anyone, Hanson said.

The company, which has yet to break even, was also buoyed by a $1.5 million grant from the Texas Emerging Technology Fund last October. The fund was created by Gov. Rick Perry in 2005 to improve research at Texas universities and help startup technology companies get off the ground.

Hanson concedes it's going to be at least 15 years before robot builders can approach anything like what seems to be possible in movies. Zeno the robot remains a prototype.

During a recent demonstration, Zeno could barely stand and had to be tethered to a bank of PCs that told it how to smile, frown, act surprised or wrinkle its nose in anger.
Robotics, Hanson believes, should be about artistic expression, a creative medium akin to sculpting or painting. But convincing people that robots should look like people instead of, well, robots, remains a challenge that robot experts call the "uncanny valley" theory.

The theory posits that humans have a positive psychological reaction to robots that look somewhat like humans, but that robots made to look very realistic end up seeming grotesque instead of comforting.

"Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too cree[FS:PAGE]py," Hanson said. "Well, robots can seem real and be loved too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics."

So just how did Hanson end up with two Zenos, anyway?

It all goes back to when his wife, Amanda, gave birth to their first child and Zeno the robot was already in the works.

They rattled off several names to their baby boy, but it wasn't until they whispered "Zeno" that "this look of peace fell over his face; it was like soothing to his ears," Hanson recalled.

"There was no way we could give him any other name. He chose Zeno as his name," he said.

That was just fine with Amanda.

"I thought that it was very endearing, very sweet," she said.

The similarities go beyond the name. Though Zeno the robot was built to resemble the animated Japanese TV show character Astro Boy, his plastic hair and saucer-shaped eyes bear a striking resemblance to the curly locks and wide-eyed smile of the real Zeno.

"So by coincidence they're both Zeno, and in other ways this robot has become more of a portrait sculpturally of the son, although it's almost coincidence," said Hanson, whose previous jobs include working as a character sculptor for The Walt Disney Co. "We didn't consciously sculpt this robot to look like him. It's the way things filter through the hands of the artist."

Hanson says one of the robot Zeno's biggest advancements is that its brains aren't inside the robot. Instead Zeno synchs wirelessly to a PC running a variant of Massive Software - the same Academy Award-winning code that enabled the fantastical battles among humans, orcs and elves in the "Lord of the Rings" movies.

Like some modern version of Geppetto's workshop, Hanson's office is crammed with rows of shelves stacked with books about robots next to toy robot[FS:PAGE]s and plastic skulls. Notes ranging from mathematical formulas to design sketches cover several white boards like high-tech graffiti.

There are scattered bits from Hanson's previous creations, including Albert Hubo, a white robotic body topped with a realistic head of Albert Einstein that has graced magazine covers and even shaken hands with President Bush.

Hanson has been recognized for his work, garnering accolades from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2005 and a "best design" award at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial last year.

But Hanson is most proud of the real Zeno, a rambunctious toddler who frolics with free rein among priceless electronics.

"If the robots become popular I suppose it will pose an identity crisis for my son," Hanson said. "But I think that the amount of love that he receives will make him feel like an individual no matter what."

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On the Net:

http://www.zenosworld.com

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在17英寸和6磅，人工拆解的是经过五年的工作，由汉森和一小群工程师，设计师和程序员在他的公司，汉森机器人技术。他们认为那是一个新兴业务，在设计和销售逼真机器人同伴或社会机器人。他们将展示机器人男童年级学生在3-12有线nextfest技术会议周四在洛杉矶举行。
显然不像人工机器人玩具，汉森说，他设想休闲作为一个互动学习的同伴，一种合成帕尔谁可以从事会话和传达人类的情感，透过面制成皮肤一样，专利材料汉森呼吁frubber 。

"这是一个代表性的机器人作为一个动画中，一个是聪明， "汉森光束。 "它认为你和认识你的脸。据了解你的名字，可以建立一个与你。 "

这绝非巧合，如果整个概念听起来像科幻电影。
汉森说，他的灵感，并瞄准了，那种同样的写实发现"一书su[FS:PAGE]pertoys上所有夏季长， "布赖恩奥尔迪斯。奥尔迪斯的故事困扰机器人男孩大卫和他的追求，为爱他的血肉家长素材，为史蒂芬史匹柏的电影"人工智能：爱" 。

他计划把小zenos向消费者提供在未来3年内为200元至300元。

到那时，汉森， 37岁，使生活出售和租赁价格，惟妙惟肖的机器人头。他的公司提供模型，看上去像爱因斯坦，海盗及摇杆，配备全套spiky的头发和墨镜。他们的成本高达数万美元，而且可以定制，看起来就像任何人，汉森说。

该公司尚未达到收支平衡，也鼓舞了150万美元的赠款，从德州新兴科技基金，在去年10月。创设基金是由州长佩里在2005年，以改善研究在德州大学，并帮助创业科技公司落地面。

汉森同意这将是至少15年前，机器人制造商，可以向任何想什么，似乎有可能在电影。休闲机器人仍然是一个原型。

在最近一次示威，宗教信仰可以勉强站立不得不被拴一家银行的电脑，告诉它如何微笑，眉，奇怪行为或皱鼻子愤怒。
机器人，汉森认为，应该对艺术表达方式，创造性中等类似于雕刻或绘画。但是令人信服的人，机器人应像人不是，那么机器人，仍然是一个挑战，机器人专家称之为"金色谷地"理论。

该理论假定，人类有一个积极的心理反应，以机器人，看上去有点像人类，而是机器人了看很现实的下场似乎荒唐，反而安慰。

"没有人抱怨说，辞世的雕塑过于垻真实的，对不对？还是诺曼罗克韦尔的画太窥探的， "汉森说。 "好了，机器人似乎能真正得到过爱。我们试图作出一个新的艺术媒介出机器人。 "

那么到底是怎么汉森落得两zenos赚头？

这一切可以追溯到当他的妻子阿曼达，生下他们的第一个孩子在家和机器人已在施工。

他们不安过几个名字，他们的男婴，但直到他们じ"客人"说： "看这个和平下降了他的脸;有人想安抚他的耳朵， "汉森回忆说。

"没有办法，我们可以给他的任何其他名称。他选择了回家，作为他的名字， "他说。

这仅仅是罚款与阿曼达。

"我认为这是非常有意思，非常甜， "她说。

相似之处超越真实姓名。虽然在家机器人始建酷似日本动画电视剧性格天文男孩，他的头发，塑料和碟型眼睛承受着相似的卷曲门锁广泛见于笑容真正与众不同[FS:PAGE]。

"这么巧合，他们都错，并以其他方式，这个机器人已经成为更多的肖像sculpturally的儿子，虽然它的几乎重合， "汉森说，其以前的工作，包括工作性质，为雕塑家特迪迪斯尼" ，我们不自觉地塑造这个机器人看起来像他。它的方法是通过过滤手的艺术家。 "

汉森说，其中的机器人在家最大的进步是，它的大脑里面没有机器人。反而更易拉去无线电脑上运行的一个变种大规模软件-同一学院的获奖码，使剧场战役中的人类，兽人和精灵，在"魔戒"电影。

像有些现代版的木偶奇遇记的车间，汉森的办公室挤满一排排书架堆放书籍约机器人旁边的机器人玩具和塑料骷髅。笔记不等数学公式设计草图涵盖几个白板等高科技涂鸦。

有位分散，从汉森的创作上，其中包括毕hubo ，白色机器人车体突破与现实头爱因斯坦已经登上杂志封面，甚至动摇手中同美国总统布什。

汉森已经认识到他的工作，赢得赞誉，从促进协会人工智能， 2005年"最佳设计奖"在史密森的库珀-休伊特国家设计三年去年。

但汉森是最自豪的真正与众不同，一个蹒跚学步的铁皮人戏与自由之间发挥电子无价的。

"如果机器人变得热门，我猜想它会构成一个身份危机为我的儿子， "汉森说。 "但我认为这个数额的爱情，他会接受，使他感觉一个人，不管是什么" 。
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