Humanoid Robots Are Eerie

My friend Troy pointed out a while ago that the more “realistic” our 3-d models of humans get, the scarier they look. Apparently it applies to robots to, at least judging by the “actroid” above.

Maybe I better put How To Survive a Robot Uprising closer to the top of my reading list.

More at Akihabara News, found via Gizmodo.

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4 Comments

  1. hi,your website is very nice.please send for me picture of robots.
    tank you very much

  2. Why are humanoid computers always female? Aren’t there any male models that have been constructed? :/

  3. @Nikki:

    I don’t know. Hal was male. He had some rather human feelings, even if he wasn’t human shaped.

  4. hi,your website is beautiful. would be nice to see more.
    tank you very much


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