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Lifelike Robots
Published: Nov 23, 06
Comments: 1
Views: 5,395

Are these lifelike robots cool or creepy?  Is there an issue of these robots of being too real?  Can this pose some sort of threat to society?

Their heads are so lifelike, their skin so textured and realistic, that Candy Sidner, a competing roboticist, called his Albert Einstein robot "spookily cool ... a giant step forward." Hanson, who started his career as an artist and spent time working in Disney's Imagineering Lab, said he flirts with being too realistic for comfort. His work, he said, "poses an identity challenge to the human being. If you make it perfectly realistic, you trigger this body-snatcher fear in some people," he said. "Making realistic robots is going to polarize the market, if you will. You will have some people who love it and some people who will really be disturbed." (cnn)

References:  cnn

Filed In:  inventions lifestyle robots science tech unique








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Jeremy Gutsche on Nov 27, 06  1,655 Trends   2,594 Comments
I'm freaked out. BTW, if you want to see a vid of the Einstein robot, check this link: Einstein Robot Video
Jeremy Gutsche on Nov 27, 06  1,655 Trends   2,594 Comments 0

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