Creepy Robot Baby CB2
FNN takes a look at the CB2(”CB Square”), a child-sized robot that may one day help scientists better understand the child development process:
A child-sized android with flexible joints and soft skin developed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency was unveiled Friday at Osaka University, where the agency’s research and development team is based.
The 1.3-meter-tall, 33 kilogram humanoid robot has optical, auditory and tactile sensors. Fifty-one actuators inside its body run on compressed air and enable the robot to make complex movements smoothly.
About 200 tactile sensors are embedded in the robot’s gray skin, which is made of silicon and other materials. The robot can react to its surroundings by blinking and altering its facial expressions.
The robot, which has the physical ability of a 1- or 2-year-old toddler, can turn over and stand up with assistance.
Here’s a couple more news reports about the robot:
Want to see more of CB2? Just wait until you go to sleep tonight: he’ll be in your nightmares.
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Why can I picture his robot carrying an axe chasing after people?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
Enough said.
Holy shit! They built something that does a bunch of random movements, sometimes in response to randomly-filtered stimuli, sometimes not!
Basically a robot that does nothing at all!
I’ve said it before and I will say it again… that’s one creepy-looking cyborg baby. The umbillical chord and sort of dangling skin remind me of the Evangelion anime series from ‘96.
this is probably the scariest thing happening. Though they still have a long way to go to reach what the kid in the movie AI looks like. CB2 has also been bubblified: http://www.bubblified.com/item.php?vid=110