Scientific Breakthrough! Robots Learn To Be Bad Kissers
Wednesday 16 September 2009 @ 9:47 pm | By Ivan 'Nahu' Lozano 7 CommentsWe know no one does robots as well as Japan but Taiwan is not that much behind, except they make them ten times as creepy. Case in point, Thomas and Janet, two robot ‘actors’ designed to kiss. It apparently took three years to design both robots with autonomous hand-eye coordination and self-balance. Three years and all we get is the creepiest uncanny valley kiss ever performed.
Don’t get me wrong, the technology is outstanding, but in the end, it looks like two sedated drunks falling on each other’s faces.
This level of achievement is still not enough for Taiwan, though. Taiwan Tech, the university behind this project, wants to:
“form a group composed of autonomous robots, which are like well-trained versatile performers. They can not only perform different plays, sing songs, or broadcast news, but also interact with real persons appropriately”
Obviously with the intent of having them perform an orgy on stage and creeping the rest of humanity out of procreation. Beware, the uprising of the robots wont be violent, it will be creepy and messy and very, very awkward.
[IEEE / Via Tokyomango ]
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“clink” the teeth rang…
Perhaps a bit more of slight head twists and some other irregular or tilting movements would have made it a bit more erred in motion, alas, more human.
D: Creepy.
That’s one base down.
ARG So scary!!!!!!!
the way their heads settle at the end i find the creepiest of all…
hey Taiwan.. that’s sum uncanny valley you got there, and uncanny rolling hills, and mountains, and all.. not just the valley @.@
And they HAD to zoom out and show the difference between human and robot skin. . .
I won’t be sleeping correctly this weekend. . .;_;
An orgy?? LOL XD
It somehow bore me u_u they don’t seem to be enjoying it