HRP-4C: Japanese Fashion Robot

[Nyokou]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brD5D0ytD04

The fashion-bot is 158 centimetres tall, the average height of Japanese women aged 19 to 29, but weighs in at a waif-like 43 kilograms, including batteries.

She has a manga-inspired human face but a silver metallic body.

"If we had made the robot too similar to a real human, it would have been uncanny," one of the inventors, humanoid research leader Shuji Kajita said.

"We have deliberately leaned toward an anime style."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...16/2517770.htm




This is extremely creepy but amazing at the same time. I'm in awe at how much our technology has advanced and that kind of bothers me a little yet I'm excited to see something like this happen. So what do you all think?