Freakishly human 'Android' created |
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Posted by Marc Saltzman at 10:18 AM | E-mail this post
OK, this creeps me right out. In fact, when I first watched this video about a Japanese robotics professor who developed "The Geminoid" that looks and talks like himself, I thought it was a hoax. But it's not. Check it out.
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Posted by Marc Saltzman at 10:18 AM in Found on the Web
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Jay on August 19 at 11:40 AM | Report abuse
That's crazy!
Phil on August 19 at 3:14 PM | Report abuse
if your gonna spend that much time and money on a robot, why wouldnt you at least make him good looking? Like that hair!!??
ROB on August 19 at 8:17 PM | Report abuse
WoW but needs faster controlers in the face
Raj on August 20 at 12:23 AM | Report abuse
Robots are going to take over the world!!
shane on August 20 at 12:28 AM | Report abuse
probly not bud
data on August 20 at 2:38 AM | Report abuse
robots are sexy. even search robots.
Kyle McGregor on August 20 at 2:57 AM | Report abuse
Considering the improvements, the speed issue of the face will be resolved in the next few years. Possibly the prediction of people marrying robots by 2050 will come true. Scientists have just come out with a new robot skin that uses nanotubes which means the robot will be able to feel more like a human being.
The question of power supply remains, and that's being looked after by Asian scientists. Asia has a vested interest in robots, Japan with it's aging population, Korea the commercial. The latter has passed their form of Asimov's laws for robots to follow, as well as aiming for every home to have a robot.
Murphy's law anyone? Or Cylon in the making?
Cynthia Chan on August 20 at 7:13 AM | Report abuse
Wow. It looks so real.
I remember seeing a photo with the female version in the Guinness World Records 2008.
Cynthia Chan
valerie on August 20 at 8:17 AM | Report abuse
My question is why? This reminds me of the frankenstein movie! And we know how that turned out.
industrialpoppy on August 20 at 10:56 AM | Report abuse
Yikes! Amazing technology, but still spooky.
Kelly on August 20 at 12:09 PM | Report abuse
I agree with Valerie!!! Why indeed??
dave on August 20 at 1:40 PM | Report abuse
the world is overpopulated enough. why add more?? don't like relying on computers as it is!! watch "I Robot" haha!
bri on August 20 at 4:36 PM | Report abuse
creepy. period.
hhmmmm on August 20 at 4:39 PM | Report abuse
This is truely amazing however I think this is opening pandora's box. I wonder when the first person will use these robots for crime and such. I've read other articles about this and they perdict that robots with flood the workplace and common household within a short number of years. They even have said they are manufacturing these robots for sexual fantasy. I don't know . . . doesn't seem right to me . . .
dickie on August 20 at 4:40 PM | Report abuse
This is what they should have done with the "frozen sasquatch". Then maybe people would have believed it was real. lol.
Greg on August 20 at 5:30 PM | Report abuse
Do you live under a rock? This is old news...
Mike on August 20 at 5:42 PM | Report abuse
I must say seeing this video makes me feel sick!!! are we god are to play the role of god NO! I think these scientists shoud cease what there doing
ignaeon on August 20 at 5:44 PM | Report abuse
I think it's strange, but we shouldn't worry. that thing has about as much AI as a furby, so it's harmless. However, if they had made an advanced, nearly humanlike AI (Artificial intelegence), then I would start worrying. Because the first thing we would do is treat them like slaves, and any sentient being would want to be free. If any one has seen the prolouge to "the matrix" series, then they know what happens next (a robot revolt, order to destroy them, more violence, and eventualy war). although, we probably would just get the humans out of robot terratory, then bomb them. though hopefully they don't make an AI that advance, even thogh they are trying. so to quote some guy in jurrasic park, "they spend so much time wondering on how they could do it they don't bother to wonder whether or not they should".
r on August 20 at 5:46 PM | Report abuse
yeah, when this thing can stand on its own, walk and talk on its own and can fight a war on its own... then come get me. Until then dont bore me with this stuff. peace.
B on August 20 at 6:18 PM | Report abuse
There's nothing freakish about this. It's the future
Pye on August 20 at 7:29 PM | Report abuse
People who are even remotely against this kind of technology have seen the Terminator movies a few too many times.
lathana on August 20 at 7:37 PM | Report abuse
the world is coming to an end look at that that is crazy
Christina on August 20 at 7:47 PM | Report abuse
I think it's really cool. But marrying a robot not really.
Maybe you're right I have seen too many Terminator movies!
Andis on August 20 at 7:56 PM | Report abuse
the whole playing god bit is a tad off. I mean c'mon....God NEVER made a single robot ;) aside from that, I think this is incredible and we should embrace the technology as fast as it is developed.
steven on August 20 at 8:12 PM | Report abuse
ya know, i liked when them lego robots were the big thing
steven on August 20 at 8:16 PM | Report abuse
yeesh he look like the leader of north korea ya know kin jhon yil or however you spell it
Nibohiko Asato on August 20 at 8:30 PM | Report abuse
Revelation 13:13-17 "And he does great wonders, so that he makes fire come down from Heaven in the sight of men. And decieves them who dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image of the beast which had the wound by the sword and did live. AND HE HAD POWER TO GIVE LIFE TO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, that the Image of the beast should both SPEAK and cause that as many as WOULD NOT WORSHIP the image of the beast should be killed. And he caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, free an bond to receive a mark in their right hand or foreheads. And that no man might buy or sell, save he who had the mark, or the name of the beast or the number of his name."
For years people have scoffed the Bible saying "How can a person be prohibited from buying and selling unless they had a mark? How can an image speak?"
Digital angel is a microchip inserted under the skin, it acts a tracking device. With the amounts of info storage capacity a chip has, a person's whole history can be imprinted on a chip and injected. With Europe having One currency, it will spread to a global currency. With the advances in technology, cash is becoming obselete, the conditions for a state enforced chip implant to do transactions is not as far fetched as was once believed.
As for the image, this robot is crude...but it paves the way.
Mix in the Mid East tensions. If anyone can resolve it and make peace they will be seen as a savior. This "savior" will come, a devil in disguise, a man who destroys through peace, a man who will enforce a biochip implant and refusal to do so will result in a death sentence by beheading. He will have a robotic likeness of himself.
10 years, 15, 20, maybe less...but it is coming. Jesus is the only security one has.
Drew on August 20 at 9:53 PM | Report abuse
The Age of Spiritual Machines begins...2029 is coming fast.
Kraftwerk on August 25 at 12:19 PM | Report abuse
We are the robots