creepy human looking robot...
27 March 2005, 05:21 PM
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creepy human looking robot...
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Not a Vegas lounge act, but a project by David Hanson, a doctoral student at the University of Texas’s Institute for Interactive Arts and Engineering. David has gone very far into facial-expression recognition… too far, in fact — we’re pretty sure we’ll have nightmares after having seen these two videos. Now, we see a lot of ridiculous-looking robots, and a fair number of downright creepy droids, cross the news desk here at Engadget, but we have never seen a robot with a goatee and an eye patch (okay, Disneyworld, but that doesn’t count). Nor have we seen anything quite as disturbing as the facial-expressions exhibited by Eva, a poor victim of advances in elastomer material sciences, whose lot in life is as a neck sprouting awkwardly from a table. Peep the videos, friends, but your retinas will never be quite the same.
how scary is this...
http://iiae.utdallas.edu/projects/robot/broadband.html
and this...
http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/b...bot-Hanson.mov
Not a Vegas lounge act, but a project by David Hanson, a doctoral student at the University of Texas’s Institute for Interactive Arts and Engineering. David has gone very far into facial-expression recognition… too far, in fact — we’re pretty sure we’ll have nightmares after having seen these two videos. Now, we see a lot of ridiculous-looking robots, and a fair number of downright creepy droids, cross the news desk here at Engadget, but we have never seen a robot with a goatee and an eye patch (okay, Disneyworld, but that doesn’t count). Nor have we seen anything quite as disturbing as the facial-expressions exhibited by Eva, a poor victim of advances in elastomer material sciences, whose lot in life is as a neck sprouting awkwardly from a table. Peep the videos, friends, but your retinas will never be quite the same.
how scary is this...
http://iiae.utdallas.edu/projects/robot/broadband.html
and this...
http://ndeaa.jpl.nasa.gov/nasa-nde/b...bot-Hanson.mov
28 March 2005, 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by penfold118
PMSL...... Why do you ask......
japs have a wierd thing going on with young birds and fluffy socks etc etc
possible sex toy uses for rich old jap blokes?
I cant view the 2nd one
28 March 2005, 01:38 PM
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If you think that's creepy, check out what Honda have come up with:
http://world.honda.com/HDTV/ASIMO/
The videos at the bottom of the page are scary, check out the one where it changes direction to follow the woman!
Toyota also have walking robots:
http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/special/robot/
Both companies fully expect, and are completely serious (!), that these robots will begin to replace the Japanese workforce in the near future. They've already invested billions in this area, and each company predicts that the market for these will be bigger than their current market for cars in the near future!
The only thing holding back their deployment is Moore's law and software development. Imagine, a workforce that never slacks, complains or tires and works 24/7. What economy in the world will be able to compete with Japanese manufactured products when their labour costs less than it does in rural China?
http://world.honda.com/HDTV/ASIMO/
The videos at the bottom of the page are scary, check out the one where it changes direction to follow the woman!
Toyota also have walking robots:
http://www.toyota.co.jp/en/special/robot/
Both companies fully expect, and are completely serious (!), that these robots will begin to replace the Japanese workforce in the near future. They've already invested billions in this area, and each company predicts that the market for these will be bigger than their current market for cars in the near future!
The only thing holding back their deployment is Moore's law and software development. Imagine, a workforce that never slacks, complains or tires and works 24/7. What economy in the world will be able to compete with Japanese manufactured products when their labour costs less than it does in rural China?
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