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June 16, 2005
This year's robots
This year's robots: "The android is partially covered in skinlike silicone... 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... It may be a while before androids are escorting tour groups or looking after children, which may be just as well. 'When a robot looks too much like the real thing, it's creepy,' [the robot's creator] told the Associated Press."
Posted by John Dowdell at June 16, 2005 5:35 PM
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