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Didn't see this posted so I thought a few would get a kick out of it.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... robot.html
Internal sensors allow the android to react "naturally." It can block an attempted slap, for example. But it's the little, "unconscious" movements that give the robot its eerie verisimilitude: the slight flutter of the eyelids, the subtle rising and falling of the chest, the constant, nearly imperceptible shifting so familiar to humans.

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And I just know some of you perveted people are thinking sex bots
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dragon wrote:Didn't see this posted so I thought a few would get a kick out of it.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news ... robot.html
Internal sensors allow the android to react "naturally." It can block an attempted slap, for example. But it's the little, "unconscious" movements that give the robot its eerie verisimilitude: the slight flutter of the eyelids, the subtle rising and falling of the chest, the constant, nearly imperceptible shifting so familiar to humans.


And I just know some of you perveted people are thinking sex bots
If you could get over the noise of the nearby air compressor required to drive the thing's movements . . . :)
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Post by Guy N. Cognito »

Pretty good, but I'm still thinking of uncanny valley. If you know it's a robot/android and it looks too close nbut not quite, it throws you off and oyu dislike it. Make it look like C-3P0 or something, you know it's an android. No need to creep people out. I wonder how interactive it actually is. How intelligent. Can you actually have a good conversation with it?
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I'd rather have NS-5s than human looking machines to be honest.
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The face is good. I thought the Man's head looked more artificial! :)
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NecronLord wrote:The face is good. I thought the Man's head looked more artificial! :)
That's what I thought when I looked at the left picture; I thought it was the woman wearing pink who was about to slap the "robot" in black.
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Motokoooooooooo!

Seriously. If this is Japan we're thinking of... color me unsurprised if 'that' is one of the future applications.
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Post by Duckie »

I agree with Guy N. Cognito, There's always that area where you know a robot/video game character is unreal because they're unrealistic looking.
Then there's the area where they try to look human and get to be creepily fake (staring eyes, near homogenous skin colour, stiff posture).

Like the difference between these two.

That said, it's much more realistic than I thought it would be. If the robot's posture was adjusted a little I'd have had to make sure. And judging by the article, most of the things I said about it are solved by constant movement as opposed to a frozen image.
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