This new telepresence robot by Tobita Hiroaki and his team at Sony Computer Science Laboratories floats around with the remote user’s face projected onto it.
“The project is still in the early stages, and researches will soon begin testing the unit on users to gauge their reactions to interacting with a floating, disembodied head. Already, Hiroaki says that his colleagues have described the experience as “very strange.”
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NYC Robot Film Festival: a two day celebration of robots on film. http://robotfilmfestival.com (teaser video: http://bit.ly/ooEggt)
Technology/Robots: Actroid-F
Realistic robot with the most human of facial expressions, as you can see in the video above; the Guinness Book of World Records marks it as the “first true android.” Has robotics finally crossed the Uncanny Valley? Or is this even creepier than robots that we know for sure to be robots?
Technology: WTF! Is Skynet next?
These robotic suits, worn by humans and produced by Cyberdyne in Japan, let the paralysed walk and give care-workers extra strength to carry the old and infirm to a wheelchair. Businesses like this need stability to prosper - and the country’s recent parade of interchangeable prime-ministers (five in four years) has hardly helped.
(Source: theeconomist)
