I don't want to call "Robot" fake because I have seen my fair share of Japanese built robots such as the Mosimo model on YouTube and even though I've searched for my answer I just can't seem to find a legitimate source that can verify the authenticity of "Robot". I very much like to believe they used a real functioning robot however the size of it teeters my doubts.
Well technically they already have robots that are capable of some of the actions performed in the movie. Certainly some of the finer motor movements and cognitive speech are beyond what robots today can do, but if they really wanted to use a robot to play the robot, they probably would have just rented one from Samsung or Honda...
There is no robot around to mimic the movements required in the film. They were too natural for a machine. It wouldn't have been cost effective, as the closests that exists, would run out it's batteries every 30 minutes.
Im the Alpha and the Omoxus. The Omoxus and the Omega
It also takes a real life robot much longer to perform simple tasks, picking up a glass of water for instance is tediously slow and wouldn't work for a movie.
There is no robot around to mimic the movements required in the film.
Sorry, but you are really really wrong on this one. Honda's Asimo can not only walk and climb stairs, it can run. Asimo has been in development for thirty years.
Asimo is being designed by Honda to perform exactly the sorts of functions Frank's robot does.
First of all I assumed that there was a human inside the robot.
During the end credits they show clips of various robots doing many of the tasks that were shown in the film. I presume those clips were there to show that at some stage in the future there could be robots that could function as they did in the movie.
You see this movie, and the first thing you think is "yeah, that's a real robot!" and then you ask here? You don't see "Rachael Ma ... Robot Performer" listed on the credits? Are you stupid or trolling?
1: When the son lifts it out of his trunk. A real robot that size would weigh more than he could have lifted.
2: When the kids are picking on the robot, and they shove him backwards, but he stabilizes himself & doesn't fall. Current ambulatory robots can't quite handle THAT yet.
As of 2013, yes the robot's fake. But not for long. Following robotics is one of my hobbies. No single robot can do what Frank's can do yet, but I've seen every single one of those things done by single-purpose research robots in labs this year.
I built my first home computer in 1977. Nobody I knew (but other computer hobbyists) had any idea such things existed, nor had any idea why anyone would want one. 7 years later, in 1984, "The Computer" was Time Magazine's "Person of the Year", and they were changing the world.
This decade, robotics moved into their exponential-growth phase. I currently expect to buy my own "helper" in 2017. A South Korea study estimates a quarter of their households will buy a robot that year.
Not that that's all good news. The Japanese government did a study last year that concluded they'd see permanent 25% unemployment due to robots replacing people by 2020.
It's coming. And not "someday" anymore, but "real soon now". Google bought EIGHT robotics companies in the past six months. They see it, too!
So brace yourselves. The world's about to change...again.
PS: Just got to the end of the movie. Those robots in the closing credits ARE all real. I recognized all but maybe two of them. I even knew many of their names, and what labs they were in!
I don't want to call "Robot" fake because I have seen my fair share of Japanese built robots such as the Mosimo model on YouTube and even though I've searched for my answer I just can't seem to find a legitimate source that can verify the authenticity of "Robot".
This is something I was prepared to spot instantly and say "hey, it's a person in a suit." Frankly speaking, it had to be. Robots aren't "there" *yet*, but the woman who was in the suit pretty clearly studied the movements of actual robots and did more than a passable job of emulating their movements. I also have to credit the director and editor for making sure there were not clearly human movements in the film. The entire time I thought I was watching Honda's Asimo in action. Very well done, though clearly "a man in a suit." In this case a woman named Rachel Ma.