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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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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: geminoidseries; robot
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:37:08 PM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
There used to be something similar in a movie at Disneyland about how they made Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. It used to freak me out as a kid.
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:37:19 PM PST
by
Crcl1
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Program it to curse and blame Bush and it’d be in line for the next Academy Award. It’d certainly fit in with that bunch.
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:40:58 PM PST
by
Seruzawa
(What's Democrat's legacy? Almost 1/2 million dead US soldiers and collapsed cities.)
To: ghost of nixon
To be fair, Algore is made of wood, a much more difficult medium to work with for human realism.
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:41:18 PM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
( "I don't want the majority if we don't stand for something"- Jim Demint)
To: Crcl1
I saw the animatronic Presidents in Walt Disneyworld, sure they were astonishing but like everything else there is outdated. It was kinda sad going to both the Disney parks in America just to see outdated tech from 20 years or more.
However I bet the Tokyo Disney park is cutting edge.
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:43:51 PM PST
by
Eye of Unk
("These people are either at your neck or at your knees" A quote by Winston Churchill)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
they really need to talk to the Disney folks...
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:43:53 PM PST
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Creepy. Who would have guessed that Christopher Guest in Waiting for Guffman would be the model for androids.
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:44:04 PM PST
by
americanophile
("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Ok ... creepy, but is he “fully functional.”
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:45:35 PM PST
by
RobinOfKingston
(An election is not a (national) suicide pact.)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:46:19 PM PST
by
steveyp
To: longtermmemmory
they really need to talk to the Disney folks......and Hooters!
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:47:04 PM PST
by
SonOfDarkSkies
('And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?' Yeats)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
“blurred the lines between man and machine”
there are some people who really think that man can create another man in his image.
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:47:35 PM PST
by
Leftism is Mentally Deranged
(Liberalism is against human nature. Practicing liberalism is detrimental to your mental stability.)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
You forgot the original!
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:50:29 PM PST
by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
Kind of makes you wonder how soon we will become a “Blade Runner” society?
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:51:01 PM PST
by
Eye of Unk
("These people are either at your neck or at your knees" A quote by Winston Churchill)
To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
Well, it wouldn’t be hard to create an android which is an improvement on the TOTUS.
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:51:45 PM PST
by
SonOfDarkSkies
('And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?' Yeats)
To: Westbrook
I think i saw this guy on the pirates of the caribbean ride around 1978.
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:51:45 PM PST
by
mowowie
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Impressive and exciting.
Imagine where this science will be in 30 to 50 years, if we survive.
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:53:23 PM PST
by
Gator113
(I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
To: swain_forkbeard
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:54:56 PM PST
by
frithguild
(The Democrat Party Brand - Big Government protecting Entrenched Interests from Competition)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
Yes, they are very realistic but what else do they do? If they can't do anything, they serve no purpose other than a museum or science center novelty. I guess I could see some applications in Hollywood, but these wouldn't last forever.
I will say that the Japanese are indeed on the cutting edge of Robotics. No one else even comes close.
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:55:13 PM PST
by
lmr
(God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools.)
To: SonOfDarkSkies
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:55:26 PM PST
by
Gator113
(I'll be voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
To: ghost of nixon
looks more realistic than Algore... LOL - you're right.
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posted on
03/07/2011 12:56:17 PM PST
by
GOPJ
(http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
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