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The Creepiest, Most Realistic Robot Ever (Extremely realistic android - video)
FoxNews.com ^ | 3/7/2011

Posted on 03/07/2011 12:12:53 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies

Incredibly cool or insanely creepy? Yes, that is an actual robot.

Japanese researchers have blurred the lines between man and machine with their latest robot, the incredibly realistic Geminoid DK.

It is the third of the Geminoid series, a line of androids designed by Hiroshi Ishiguro, a professor at Osaka University and his team at Japan's Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) in Nara.

The robot has been constructed to look exactly like Henrik Scharfe, an associate professor of Aalborg University in Denmark and is the first of the series based on a non-Japanese person.

"Geminoid|DK will be the first of its kind outside of Japan," the group explains on the robot's website. "[It is] intended to advance android science and philosophy, in seeking answers to fundamental questions."

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1 posted on 03/07/2011 12:12:59 PM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Even Commander Data didn’t look that good.


2 posted on 03/07/2011 12:16:35 PM PST by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Westbrook

looks more realistic than Algore...


3 posted on 03/07/2011 12:18:23 PM PST by ghost of nixon
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

I saw that on the first season of Star Trek. Andrea was quite a piece of...engineering.


4 posted on 03/07/2011 12:18:46 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Westbrook

His eybrows move when he blinks. Other than that ... dang, it’s creepy.


5 posted on 03/07/2011 12:20:03 PM PST by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

The look on that dude’s face is the one I see on the cookie cutter anarcho-artsy Philly coffee house patrons.


6 posted on 03/07/2011 12:20:28 PM PST by Stentor ( "All cults of personality begin as high drama and end as low comedy.")
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

So how long before the Left want Human/Robot marriages recognized?


7 posted on 03/07/2011 12:20:28 PM PST by Kartographer (".. we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.")
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To: ghost of nixon

> looks more realistic than Algore...

LOL!!

The average store mannequin looks more realistic than Algore.


8 posted on 03/07/2011 12:20:29 PM PST by Westbrook (Having children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
AHEM!! May I please be allowed to make a suggestion for the V4 model ,,
9 posted on 03/07/2011 12:20:36 PM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: ghost of nixon

Your comment made me think how cool it would be to make one of these things look like a young Schwarzenegger.

And program it to say “I’ll be back.”


10 posted on 03/07/2011 12:22:07 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Reminds me of English actor Alan Rickman from Die Hard.


11 posted on 03/07/2011 12:22:30 PM PST by ReverendJames (Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)
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To: Neidermeyer

Harry Mudd had an army of ‘em.


12 posted on 03/07/2011 12:23:48 PM PST by swain_forkbeard (Rationality may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.)
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To: Kartographer

“So how long before the Left want Human/Robot marriages recognized?”

For the record, that topic was already broached in 1999’s “Bicentennial Man” starring Robin Williams.


13 posted on 03/07/2011 12:25:22 PM PST by MeganC (Soli Deo Gloria)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

The one that shows it breathing is really creepy.


14 posted on 03/07/2011 12:26:30 PM PST by Madame Dufarge
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Kyle Reese: The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him.


15 posted on 03/07/2011 12:28:54 PM PST by Lazamataz (IMPRISON JOE PRO BONO!)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

Revelation 13:13
And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

Revelation 13:14
And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

Revelation 13:15
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.


16 posted on 03/07/2011 12:29:53 PM PST by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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17 posted on 03/07/2011 12:30:23 PM PST by bigbob
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To: Neidermeyer
May I please be allowed to make a suggestion for the V4 model

It'll come with FOUR of them?
18 posted on 03/07/2011 12:31:44 PM PST by aruanan
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

And already it shows more warmth and personality than Hillary Clinton.

Amazing.


19 posted on 03/07/2011 12:33:33 PM PST by reagan_fanatic (A communist is just a liberal in a hurry)
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To: Neidermeyer

Cherry 2000

a/k/a death of feminism.


20 posted on 03/07/2011 12:33:39 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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