Just saw this article. apparently the lady on the left in the pics is actually an android (but my guess is that it can only just sit and not move about).
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0610_050610_robot.html

vids for u. they are pretty big

http://ed-02.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/lab/development/Humanoid/ReplieeQ1/img/motion_example_jp.mpg

http://ed-02.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/lab/development/Humanoid/ReplieeQ1/img/motion_example_eng.mpg

http://ed-02.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/lab/development/Humanoid/ReplieeQ1/img/touch_motion(3).mpg

last edited by ravn0s at 21:39:18 21/Jun/05

Links seem borked

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/images/050610_robot.jpg

lol, i can just imagine what hes thinking in the second photo

i'm sure she was built to be bakake proof

i would have never had known that the guy on the right was a robot ;p

Links seem borked

They were probably cut and pasted from another forum, ther are ellipses in the urls

Is it just me or does he look like the guy from Iron Chef?!

links fixed

"When a robot looks too much like the real thing, it's creepy,"

This is one of the most fascinating things about the human psyche. When something completely non-human has some human-like qualities, it's cute and adorable. When something is very close to a human, but not quite, it's downright creepy.



last edited by Idol at 21:51:51 21/Jun/05

They better make a big boobs version. I'm not getting one unless she has big boobs.

They better make a big boobs version. I'm not getting one unless she has big boobs.

Lifelike mate! Ultra-lifelike! If they gave an asian big boobs no one would believe it.

Q1 is powered by a nearby air compressor,

blow in her ear and she'll follow you anywhere

needs bigger tits

I'd hit it

Yeah but can she say "shalom" ?

^^ does anyone care?

I suppose not =(

It moves like those crappy puppet things you'd see at Dreamworld or Seaworld. Or if you're old enough to remember the singing animals at Charly Cheeses back in the early 80's.

ROFL

You know you are the acne of this world of s*** when you create a humanoid out of technology to supplement your pathetic existance.

What ever happened to being content with the simple things in life.

charlie cheeses haha

This is one of the most fascinating things about the human psyche. When something completely non-human has some human-like qualities, it's cute and adorable. When something is very close to a human, but not quite, it's downright creepy.

Even engineers working at places like MIT say that the closer it is to looking human the more creepy it gets. Now, that has to say something for making androids. If both alpha geeks and the general public think that things too human like are creepy, then maybe it isn't a good idea.

The research suggests that the human brain can assimulate a concept of something and relate it what it is supposed to represent. Think of that add for digital cameras, who is riding the bull. It starts off looking like lego, but the human mind can fill in a lot of the blanks.

However, in the case of looking human the brain works against us. This is because we spend all of our time looking at how people comunicate, move, breath and so on. So, when we see a copy of it we can pick up all of the flaws effortlessly.

That is why the people in the FF movie always didn't look quite right, but the static objects (like the vehicals) looked f***ing awesome.

If they gave an asian big boobs no one would believe it.

http://images.ausimages.com/upload/2005-06-22/hgd.jpg

Huh?

last edited by Ecstasy at 07:58:34 22/Jun/05

fake?


huh?

No they aren't fake.

http://images.ausimages.com/upload/2005-06-22/20041019925023.jpg

Having alien, tentacle, bukake sex with the robot while scoffing down whale meat sushi = Jap heaven

Yay, you have just found one out of how many billion?

Idiot

I'm not too impressed by that. Its just another animatronic that runs on compressed air. Disney had stuff like that working over 30 years ago.

didn't realise the guy on the right was a robot either.

I saw the vids for this a week or so ago, and I don't think it moves life-like at all.