Japanese Researchers Create Buttocks Robot

Posted on May 10, 2012

Japanese researchers have created a strange buttocks robot named SHIRI. The researchers say the robot can express various emotions with movement of its artificial buttocks muscles. The robot is also capable of detecting a user's touch, stroke and slap by a microphone embedded inside its silicon skin. You can see the researchers smack and rub the robotic buttocks around the 2:10 mark. Take a look:


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