Latest Geminoid Is Incredibly Realistic

[Sabre]

IEEE

Okay, I admit it... I found myself wondering whether this was in fact a real robot, or actually a person pretending to be a robot or even a fake robot.
It's not a fake. This is the latest iteration of Geminoid series of ultra-realistic androids, from Kokoro and Hiroshi Ishiguro. Specifically, this is Geminoid DK (actually a Geminoid Model-F), which was constructed to look exactly like Associate Professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University in Denmark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZlLNVmaPbM[/video]

hehe, proof:


Pretty amazing It's always the mouth that gives it away for me.

[sirwilliam]

Pretty cool. Scary, though.

[complacent]

this stuff genuinely freaks me out. why is there such a strong drive to do this? what's wrong with meatspace?

[Cereb Daithi]

They should leave the skin off. It's much cooler that way! It looks like he just stuck his head out the window going 1000mph

[Sabre]

I suppose they do it so that the robot will be accepted more broadly by us meat sacks.

[Raven]

That's still in the uncanny valley for me, though admittedly it's probably starting to climb out the other side.