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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Posted December 3, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology. Tags: actroid, android, androids, animatronic, automaton, automatons, eerie, human, humanoid, robot, robotics, robots, scary.
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hi,your website is very nice.please send for me picture of robots.
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Why are humanoid computers always female? Aren’t there any male models that have been constructed? :/
@Nikki:
I don’t know. Hal was male. He had some rather human feelings, even if he wasn’t human shaped.
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