This is a little frightening and made me wish I was still young, innocent and breast-feeding (takes a lot to make me wish I was that near a naked woman). The description itself is bad enough, but just wait till you click on the video link after the story. The audio's in Japanese, but you'll still be sufficiently creeped. A robot that emulates the behavior patterns of a 3-year-old. I took a quick look to see if this was already posted but didn't come across it amongst the threads about farts and ass pictures. Hope I'm not duplicating.

Source

Japanese Robot Likes Sushi, Fears President
By Staff Writers, Reuters
6 June 2007 10:01 AEST

TOKYO - Kansei frowns when he hears the word "bomb", smiles at "sushi" and looks scared and disgusted when someone says "president" - and he isn't even human.

Japan's latest robot, called Kansei and created by a university research team, can pull up to 36 different facial expressions based on a program which creates word associations from a self-updating online database of 500,000 keywords.

The English keywords then trigger the most appropriate facial expression, which ranges from happiness to sadness, anger and fear.

"What we are trying to do here is to create a flow of consciousness in robots so that they can make the relevant facial expressions," said project leader Junichi Takeno, a professor at Meiji University's School of Science and Technology.

"I believe that's going to be a key to improving communication between humans and robots," he said.

The robot has 19 movable parts underneath the silicone face mask. When he hears the word "president", the online database picks up associated words such as "Bush," "war" and "Iraq" and creates an expression which mixes fear and disgust.

Takeno says that in a few years, Kansei will also have speech abilities and will be able to convey feelings, which could be useful in places such as nursing homes for the elderly.

Japan is hooked on androids, with several companies selling robots that mimic human action such as playing drums or dancing to music.

With Japan's population expected to slide by around a quarter by 2050, and immigration a sensitive issue, some laboratories have developed humanoid robots that can work as maids.

Earlier this year, a university researcher created a robot that looks and moves exactly like him.

http://www.youtube.com/wa...sh9OxnDR7o

Too fuckin' cool

some laboratories have developed humanoid robots that can work as maids.

I bet that one is gonna be expensive as hell.

AnckSuNamun said:

I love how blatant that is.

what

the

fuck.

This was my face the whole time I watched that ----->


I'm already imagining the horror movie that will go with this actually.

Ok, so that one was creepy, but THIS one is even more freaky IMO....

http://www.youtube.com/wa...7sfrY&NR=1

minneapolisgenius said:

I'd definitely get one if I had the opportunity It looks so real. I'd sit it by the front door to scare people when they come up.

I read about that one! The professor was so in love with himself he made a robot one. I think he also made this big generic robot baby one, too?