Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro was responsible for for thefirst Geminoids — super naturalistic android capable of reproducing facial tics and other subtle mannerisms — but a team of research worker at Aalborg University in Denmark has fire back with their own just - skinned take on the creepily naturalistic robot : theGeminoid DK .
DK already looks startlingly intimate , like he ’s the cool guy who teachers your English composition class atUncanny ValleyUniversity , but he ’s still very much a oeuvre in progress . presently , he ’s programmed to breathe and make his own nonvoluntary muscular reactions , though both military action presently seem a bite too pronounced from these first videos . Nevertheless , he ’s substantially cheaper than Ishiguro ’s Geminoids , mean that he ’ll be more widely available to robotics investigator . Oh and if you ’re late to class he punishes you with optical maser beams that shoot out of his eyes . [ Crunch Gear ]
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