Hina ver,RF09: A Japanese Robot that Makes You Coffee
The designer Mujaki has created this adorable japanese robot that wears pigtails. Her name is Hina ver,RF09 and she knows how to make coffee.
Her pigtails are actually antennas that pick up orders from a wireless remote control
Would you like to have a personal assistant make coffee for you every morning? Your dream may well become reality in the near future and you’ll be able to have a a japanese robot servant like hina ver, RF09 at home. She's quickly becoming popular in Japan thanks to its adorable look and the cute gestures it makes while preparing coffee.
Hina ver,RF09 is 36cm tall and wears 2 pigtails on its head. A video shows the entire coffee-making process: from grinding the beans, to serving it in a cup. When you see Hina in the pictures, she may look somewhat unstable, but if you look at the video you can see that when she grinds the coffee beans or serves the hot water her movements are almost exactly like a human’s. It almost looks as if she were alive.
Hina ver,RF09’s father is called Mujaki and he’s customized Kopropo Japan’s human robot KHR-2HV in order to create this coffee robot. He’s made a few changes to the limbs and to the head. For instance, the pigtails of this japanese robot are actually antennas that pick up orders from a wireless remote control.
This robot servant’s nearly perfect movements are getting good reviews, and there’s even talk of her being a revolutionary robot. Plus, she’s pretty, the designer made her look nice so people would be more forgiving of any possible flaws.
Mujaki actually admits that he cheated a bit when editing the video: for instance, the cup is held down by some screws and the coffee grinder is actually empty, so the robot doesn’t need to make much of an effort, but the robot’s movements are real.
The video was uploaded on YouTube on June 18th and got 160 thousand hits in just one day. It’s still being seen about 70 thousand times a day.
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Her pigtails are actually antennas that pick up orders from a wireless remote control
