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. Comment by amin on July 18, 2007 6:43 pm

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

  2. Comment by Nikki on July 20, 2007 10:04 pm

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

  3. Comment by Casey Bisson on July 21, 2007 12:35 am

    @Nikki:

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

  4. Comment by John on August 8, 2007 9:33 am

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

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