CONTENTS:

INTRODUCTION

ANDROID SCIENCE

DEVELOPMENT OF ANDROIDS

COGNITIVE STUDIES USING ANDROIDS

CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

WHAT IS AN ANDROID?

APPEARANCE AND BEHAVIOUR

ANDROID SCIENCE

DEVELOPMENT OF ANDROIDS

MECHANISMS FOR HUMANLIKE MOVEMENTS AND REACTIONS

Acutators represent movements of chest,head and arms.

Function of generating facial expressions

Dc servomotors make un-humanlike noise.

TOWARD VERY HUMANLIKE MOVEMENTImitate real humanlike emotions in cooperation with master.

Attach markers of the precise 3D motion tracker on both android and master

COGNITIVE STUDIES

UNCANNY VALLEYThe area of repulsive response aroused by a robot with appearance and motion between a barely human and fully human entity is called UNCANNY VALLEY.

CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS RECOGNITION

AROUSAL THEORY

DIFFERENTIAL CORTICAL ACTIVATION THEORY

SOCIAL SIGNAL THEORY

POSSIBILITY OF AN ANDROID AS A HUMAN

One is to respond with either lies or the truth to questions posed by the android.

The other is to answer seriously both easy and difficult questions posed by the android

Which is the woman and which is the machine?

CONCLUSIONAndroid science is expected to be a very fundamental research area where principles of human-human communications and human-robot

If robots working in our human society become reality, there is of course the possibility of our also using androids in our future life.