“Originally, I was using this robot for giving lectures when I was busy.”Human XeroxJapanese inventor Hiroshi Ishiguro has created a whopping six robot clones of himself over the last 18 years, each bearing an increasingly close resemblance to himself.His latest creation, dubbed Geminoid HI-6, is a life-like teleoperated android version of his physical likeness currently being displayed at his lab at Osaka University.The bot, Ishiguro says, was designed to make his easier. In fact, it’s been taking over some of the tasks its flesh-and-blood creator doesn’t have the time for with…
