As well as voice synthesis, the SDR-4X also expresses emotion through an advanced range of fluid movements
in its body. Not just a walker and talker, it can sing and dance according to the different music and lyrics programmed into its software.
More functional uses for the robot have not been detailed by Sony, who is tight-lipped about a release date for a consumer model, only suggesting that one will be available before the end of the year. Rumour has it, however, that the SDR-4X will not come cheap: early estimates are it could cost as much as a luxury car.

You’ll also be able to program the biped to move around as you see fit, by hooking it up to a PC over a wireless link. Even if our mechanical friend takes a tumble, don’t worry, it possesses the mobility to stand up again.
Using image and voice recognition to respond to people’s faces and voices, it can also recognise up to ten different individuals through front facial image capture, even against complex backgrounds.This is achieved by using seven microphones placed inside the robot’s head to locate a sound source and recognise individual speech and tone.

The SDR-4X is sensor loaded and operates using 38 independently moving joints fed information from the unit’s real-time control system. One of the key features Sony boasts about is the robot’s ability to sense variations in the surface it’s walking on and adjust its walking pattern accordingly.The robot’s not only capable of achieving a stable and flexible walking pattern, but can also assess its course over varying terrain and navigate objects, such as stairs, in its path.

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We ran the gamut in our real-world tests, trying to see both how fast and how slowly we could drain the battery. The worst we could get was 4 hours of recording time. This test was conducted using our Sony FX7 camcorder with the flip-out LCD on. recording to Mini DV tape in HDV mode, along with Anton’s ElightZ shining the whole time. Four hours. The best we could get was a little over 7 hours of recording with one ElipZ battery. This test had our camcorder recording to Mini DV tape in HDV mode without using the flip-out LCD or the ElightZ light.

Auto exposure gave us accurate exposures for all normally-balanced scenes we shot. We could easily compensate for strongly backlit scenes by pressing the backlight button or switching to manual. If a subject is predominantly bright or dark, the AE shift does a good job adjusting for these extreme values.
You select white balance (WB) modes through menus. The default requires four steps, but you can move this and other buttons to an earlier menu page if you prefer. Our WB tests shooting a Macbeth ColorChecker chart revealed that manual WB is somewhat more accurate than auto. Manually white balancing provides a one-percent average variance from color neutral toward blue-green. Auto WB gave us a nine-percent average variance toward red-green. The included WB shift feature will get you even closer. The HC7 buffers its auto WB adaptation to different lighting conditions by taking about ten seconds to fully adjust.

The HC7 uses a Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* lens and a single 112.9″ CMOS sensor with 2,280,000 effective pixels. We were impressed with the overall image quality. Colors are vibrant but not over-saturated; sharpness is very good, even to the edges of the frame; and, while some noise is apparent in dark areas of a normally

Sony designers have done a good job balancing accessibility with function in such a compact camcorder. You access most functions using the HC7’s 2.7-inch-wide touch screen. In the default mode, you have three pages each with six large touchscreen function buttons. Press the Easy button on the left side of the camcorder, and you get only one page of four main functions. A nice feature if you want just the basics.

The spring-tensioned mode dial cycles through selections for camcorder, playback and photo. When the HC7 is on a table, a small indicator light adjacent to descriptions for each mode lets
you know which feature is engaged. However, we found our fingers covered the descriptions while the camera was in use, which is not a big deal, since both the viewfinder and LCD temporarily flash a large description during mode changes.

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