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  • Big Mistake #2: giving robots human like faces with TOTAL MORPHING ABILITIES

    These inventions are evil.

    I'm totally certain that 20 years from now, sneaky robot assassins will use this technology to kill every last human / take over the free world / kill dana connor






    The WD-2 robot is a pretty amazing piece of technology. It can't walk, talk, compute awesomely complex equations, or carry heavy objects. What it can do, however, is morph to look like anyone's face. Created by researchers at Tokyo University, the WD-2 has "17 facial points, for a total of 56 degrees of freedom," whatever that means.

    Made from a material called Septom, which is both very rigid as well as malleable, it's able to shift to match nearly any facial structure. It's certainly a creepy idea, one that I can't quite see the practical benefits of. It's also incredible to watch doing its thing, as a realistic face seems to morph on the fly into another, completely different realistic face. Technology is a crazy thing, isn't it?

  • #2
    The mechanical box on the outside sorta gives it's identity away... for now.

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    • #3
      Pretty cool. Nice alternative to CGI for film work.
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      • #4
        Looks like Shodan.
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