Human or Machine? The Incredibly Life-Like Android Robots From Japan

[yuiyoshida]

[Uncle Joe]

1. Fascinating.

Thanks for the thread, yuiyoshida.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

2. Cool! nt

[aidbo]

3. They're getting closer, but I still can't get past that uncanny valley.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

[Old Crow]

4. Looking at that chart...

... I'd say Ted Cruz fit right in somewhere between prosthetic hand and bunraku puppet. And I'm not joking, either.

[aidbo]

5. Too True!

Article title: "Neurologist explains why it’s hard to look at Ted Cruz’s creepy ‘unsettling’ face"

“Senator Cruz’s countenance doesn’t shift the way I expect typical faces to move. Human faces can’t help but broadcast what we feel, what we may be thinking, and even what we may intend.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/neurologist-explains-why-its-hard-to-look-at-ted-cruzs-creepy-unsettling-face/
Like a robot with an ill fitting skin-suit.

[corkhead]

11. here's a fun example:

check out this interactive "creepy girl"



http://www.cubo.cc/creepygirl/

[NBachers]

6. I was here for the launch of Sputnik, and I may see humans on Mars.

People who live longer than me may well see robots leave the "animated corpse" stage, and into near-human replication. It will be interesting to watch.

I've gone from a portable radio bragging 6 transistors to computers and even phones with billions of 'em. Who knows what nano-hydraulics and motors will do?

[kentuck]

7. Wow!

Where does this end??

[Rhiannon12866]

8. That's actually kind of scary, they look so very real!

[Kablooie]

9. Disney built Lincoln who was even more realistic than these...

50 (!) Years ago.
1964 they had this technology figured out.

[Rhiannon12866]

10. I was just thinking about that after watching the video

If they look scary real now, what happens with even more advanced technology? I prefer my robots R2-D2 cute - and identifiable as robots!