Foo - Rwk

There something about robots like these that creep me out.
http://www.robotliving.com/2009/03/06/japans-first-robot-teacher/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJZTWwy6eUw&eurl=http://www.robotliving.com/2009/03/06/japans-first-robot-teacher/&feature=player_embedded

yep, pretty high on the creepy factor.

I think they look a little necrophiliactic.

I think I just made that word up.

K, these BF intrawebz latency issues tonight are getting my panties in a bunch....yahhhhhh!!:twitchy:

There something about robots like these that creep me out.

yep, pretty high on the creepy factor.

In fact, Japanese robot researcher Masahiro Mori noticed this in 1970 and he called it the "uncanny valley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley)":


The uncanny valley is a hypothesis that when robots and other facsimiles of humans look and act almost like actual humans, it causes a response of revulsion among human observers. The "valley" in question is a dip in a proposed graph of the positivity of human reaction as a function of a robot's lifelikeness.

YouTube - Advance Female Android Aiko AI robot fembot

The "normal conversation" at the end is funny.

"It looks like a ham-bagger." lol!

YouTube - Advance Female Android Aiko AI robot fembot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCR2PFrLkwA&feature=related)

The "normal conversation" at the end is funny.

That was amazing. Hilarious, they programmed "her" to not take any sexual harrassment from the perv scientists! :lol:


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anatomically correct?

I think you want to know if like, say, Data, they are 'fully functional.'

http://stng.36el.com/st-tng/cast/images/spiner.jpg

Finally might be able to get myself one of these then:

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd59/terminal47/Anime_M/G1t5_2_1/58600936.jpg

I wonder if they could animate any of my numerous disembodied human heads?

I wonder if they could animate any of my numerous disembodied human heads?

I bet mythbusters can.

I wonder if they could animate any of my numerous disembodied human heads?

I think I have enough experience with robotics to make this happen.

one step closer to never having to deal with or see another real human being again, :p

Machinegun jubblies!

Why can't I believe this stuff is actually happening and real?
YouTube - Eva the female robot

And wtf is up with this:
http://www.perfect-woman.com/en/compagnie.php#

This stuff has been around since about 2-3 years ago and I'm starting to find out about it now. Robots are a big step especially ones like these you would think it would have more media.
YouTube - Real robot

YouTube - Daft Punk - Technologic

You want to see creepy? Ill show you creepy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww I say this only because Im a firm believer in the "Thats only what theyre showing us, can you imagine what theyre not showning us?" theory. :twitchy:

I saw that too. Definitely weird and awkward looking.

Creepy? yes. She's gonna be a teacher? Do you think the kids will need therapy later in life?

Creepy? yes. She's gonna be a teacher? Do you think the kids will need therapy later in life?

probably

but then again, no moreso than with some of the 'real' teachers out there...

probably

but then again, no moreso than with some of the 'real' teachers out there...

Maybe by then the therapists will be bots too..... and they just wont see what the problem is.

Maybe by then the therapists will be bots too..... and they just wont see what the problem is.

:lol:

I see it like this...if they become teachers they have to lay down the law, and doing so involves anger and being a robot means they have the possiblity of malfunction and bugs so, we all are gonna die. Not really, but I see robots for no positive gain.

The unemployment rate would rise for teachers and therapists, at the very least.

The unemployment rate would rise for teachers and therapists, at the very least.

and news anchors, receptionists, and phone people.

YouTube - Daft Punk - Technologic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtdWHFwmd2o)

Beat me to it...

and news anchors, receptionists, and phone people.

I think they mostly went over to robot some time ago

Well they're finally here. Human reproduction rates may soon plunge. When a male version of this comes out, human reproduction will grind to a halt. :p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho0lIy2Kld8

http://blogs.usatoday.com/photos/uncategorized/2009/03/16/q1x00156_9_2.jpg

A couple of more short vids:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kASRj8Pa9fc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Eo3eFuUogs

Well they're finally here. Human reproduction rates may soon plunge. When a male version of this comes out, human reproduction will grind to a halt. :p


You say that like it's a bad thing:p