Gets harder to keep up with the Joneses every year, and now those so minded are going to have to get themselves and their families sculpted – by a robot – for the Joneses certainly will: Mitsubishi Electric has teamed up with the leading Japanese maker of Buddhas, Kinkasha Co to develop a system that […]
Gets harder to keep up with the Joneses every year, and now those so minded are going to have to get themselves and their families sculpted – by a robot – for the Joneses certainly will: Mitsubishi Electric has teamed up with the leading Japanese maker of Buddhas, Kinkasha Co to develop a system that uses 12 cameras and a strobe projector to measure the vital statistics of your physog, which are then used to generate a machine tool control program that drives a robot with three cutters, the thing turning out a true-to-life bust in two and a half hours – and two weeks later, for your UKP3,000, you get a miracle of machine craft; why two weeks? The thing is accurate down to the last pore, and according to the Daily Telegraph, there aren’t too many Oliver Cromwells happy with warts-and-all representations of themselves these days, and it takes that long to make the thing look less like nature intended, and more like the adonis the sitter craves.
