She is a perfect model and paragon of being slim and sensual, is weighed 95 lb and toll by 5 ft 5 in. She is none other than the HRP-4C robot model will achieve the height of the Giseles and Naomis of catwalk fame. That didn't stop the HRP-4C from making her debut in March, modeling a wedding dress by designer Yumi Katsura on her black-and-silver frame. Researchers at Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology developed the $2 million HRP-4C, which is equipped with doelike eyes and shoulder-length hair, as well as sound-recognition sensors and motors in her face to mimic human expressions. But with the HRP-4C's unusually long arms, rigid gait and expected price of about $200,000,
Now flesh-and-blood models are worried about losing their jobs to futuristic fashionistas quite yet.
