Female android Repliee Q2, built to look like a woman, developed in 2005 by professor and roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory at Osaka University. Repliee Q2 can mimic such human functions as blinking, breathing and speaking, with the ability to recognise and process speech and touch, and then respond in kind. To make the face of the Repliee Q2 model, the faces of several young Japanese women were scanned and the images combined into an average composite face.
