Every once in a while a video comes around showing off the latest advancements in robot technology and human-like androids being created every day. For we geeks, it can’t be helped but to assume such advancements are just another step toward the machines rising up, taking over, and killing us all much like we saw in Battlestar Galactica with the Cylons or in The Terminator movies.
Over the past couple of years we’ve seen some pretty ridiculous androids that looked way too realistic for our own comfort, but today we have one that puts them ALL to shame.
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce Geminoid DK, an android modeled after Associate Professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University in Denmark. What you’re about to see will likely do one of two things: explode your brain or cause you to weep uncontrollably in the fetal position. Mine was the latter.
Click on over to the other side now to see some videos of Geminoid DK.
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[Source: ieee spectrum via Geeks Are Sexy]
Cool, but this seems like an evolution of Disney’s Animatronics. If they could combine this guy with IBM’s Watson, then I’d be scared.
Comment by Bobby Cooper — March 8, 2011 @ 10:28 am
Geminoid DK must be destroyed. That is all.
Comment by Dave3 — March 8, 2011 @ 6:10 pm
Yeah, but can he cook?
Comment by Bonnie Burton — March 8, 2011 @ 7:13 pm
Impressive!!!
The movements are kinda mechanical – jerky more than anything else – but with a little bit of work, I’d imagine that could be rectified…
Comment by Skippydelic — March 8, 2011 @ 11:10 pm
Impressive!!!
The movements are kinda mechanical – jerky more than anything else – but with a little bit of work, I’d imagine that could be rectified…
Comment by Skippydelic — March 8, 2011 @ 11:10 pm
Is this cheery fellow going to populate Geminon, one of the thirteen colonies?
Comment by Schizogenia — March 8, 2011 @ 9:26 pm
But does it blend? that is the question.
Comment by Anonymous — March 13, 2011 @ 3:45 am
Saw this on TV. You don’t mention that this robot’s face was modeled on the famous Sci-fi writer Phillip K. Dick. His facial movements are pretty smooth, but they had him sitting on a sofa and smiling–it was surprising until he spoke. They really have to get that down, or have a real person behind the mirror, so to speak. This is the most realistic face I have seen yet.
Comment by Tess Elliott — March 27, 2011 @ 2:03 am
Saw this on TV. You don’t mention that this robot’s face was modeled on the famous Sci-fi writer Phillip K. Dick. His facial movements are pretty smooth, but they had him sitting on a sofa and smiling–it was surprising until he spoke. They really have to get that down, or have a real person behind the mirror, so to speak. This is the most realistic face I have seen yet.
Comment by Tess Elliott — March 27, 2011 @ 2:03 am
Oops! This robot is very similar–with the beard, but I went back and watched the other one again. This one is more attractive, but I actually liked the writer/android better. You never expect a robot to have “age” which blends him in better.
Comment by Tess Elliott — March 27, 2011 @ 2:08 am