This life-like android debuted in Japan over the weekend at the 2005 World Expo. It's made of skinlike silicone and has 31 points of articulation in its upper body. I just watched a video clip of this robot/android creation (there are more videos from the japanese website)---pretty amazing."Internal sensors allow the android to react "naturally." It can block an attempted slap, for example. But it's the little, "unconscious" movements that give the robot its eerie verisimilitude: the slight flutter of the eyelids, the subtle rising and falling of the chest, the constant, nearly imperceptible shifting so familiar to humans."
No comments:
Post a Comment