Professor Hiroshi Isiguro’s latest Robot is an exact replica of himself. Appearing to breathe and respond to touch,
Geminoid even takes his lectures at Osaka University for him.

In November i have been invited to begin photographing at the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory particularly
The relationship between Ishiguro and his double. I am looking to collaborate with a writer for editorial features as well as a more complete book project.

A Danish film ‘Robot Love’ on Ishiguro will also be launched in early 2008 in the UK

This is the closest roboticists have come to realising an ancient phantasy of the automaton. It is the most sophisticated android ever made, yet it’s merely a study phase for an end-game in which humanoids enter our daily lives.

Because life with robots is seen as inevitable in japan, technology is becoming a form of anthropology. His work seeks to develop hardware that will allow non-linguistic relationships with computers for the first time.

Geminoid begins to test and stretch new blured boundaries between ourselves and our technology . In order to design technology that will be unavoidable closer to us, his is a search for a new rules of engagement.
‘Blade Runner’-esque questions about what makes us human are being played out for the first time in Isiguro’s Lab.


Im looking to produce a feature that can pitch the old utopian ideas against the self-fulfilling prophecy of Asian optimism in technology.

What happened to our western visions of the future?

Where is the inventors ego in all of this.?

Should we be scared?

What about the sexualisation of robots?

and what is an ‘uncanny valley’ anyway?