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Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro & HI-4. ATR Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories Kyoto. Japan

Imagine seeing yourself in the mirror and then that mirror image takes on a reality that reflects your own and walks away to represent you around the world. This is what Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro envisioned when he created his HI-2 and later in life HI-4 geminoids; these geminoids are life size robotic replicates of himself. He created these geminoids to travel for him to far away conferences so that he could from the comfort of his home or office talk and act through these geminoids to give lectures and make appearances. A geminoid with its human twin offers a perfect test bed to explore the question that has inspired scientists and philosophers through the ages namely: what does it mean to be human?