Wednesday, March 11, 2009

So Lifelike





From those wacky Japanese:

TOKYO - Japan's robot teacher calls roll, smiles and scolds, drawing laughter from students with her eerily lifelike face. But the developer says it's not about to replace human instructors.

Unlike more mechanical-looking robots like Honda Motor Co.'s Asimo, the robot teacher, called Saya, can express six basic emotions — surprise, fear, disgust, anger, happiness, sadness — because its rubber skin is being pulled from the back with motors and wiring around the eyes and the mouth.

The facial expression is what got my attention. I'm not sure what you would call the emotion she's expressing, but it's exactly the look I get from women when I take off my shirt.

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