Robot Dictionary. Humanoids
Fig. Erica

Erica

n., humanoid.

Ishiguro Laboratories, Japan, 2015. A conversational android of studied realism; once hired as a television news anchor. A research platform.

Erica was designed as the most humanlike conversational android of her generation and was announced as a Japanese television news anchor in 2018; she has since been cast in a Hollywood film project.

See also Geminoid HI, Telenoid.

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