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Thursday, February 14, 2013

What the...

Aaaaaagghhh! Kill it! Kill it with fire!

A university-led collaboration to develop social robots has publicly unveiled its work in progress: a robotic one-year-old boy. As reported by Gizmag, the android named Diego-san is larger than a typical one-year-old child at over four feet tall and has a head developed by Hanson Robotics with a body made by the Japanese robot manufacturer Kokoro Co.

With 27 moving parts in its face and cameras in its eyes, Diego-san is able to produce a range of infant-like facial expressions...

There's a video at the link, just in case you're feeling like creeping yourself out today. The hideous thing "smiled" at me and I had a nearly-uncontrollable impulse to smash it with a crowbar. Where are we going with this, folks? Seriously.

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1 Comments:

Anonymous said...: We are talking about robotic humanoids involving the Japanese. You probably don't want to ask where it’s going.

-JW; 13:17