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Funniest thing I've seen in ages]]>Dec 4th 2009 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Yeah; That profile pic it insane. the video is disturbing.
Looks like someone had to much time on there hands.]]>Dec 4th 2009 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/
Natural movements and some expression would certainly go a long way.]]>Dec 4th 2009 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Series_800]]>Dec 4th 2009 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/do you think the guy who built them made it ironically this way or was that funny mouth moving just easy to make for freedom?]]>Dec 4th 2009 2:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/]]>Dec 4th 2009 6:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Of all time.]]>Dec 4th 2009 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/
It's ok.. the botched commenting system's keeping me up at night too.. :( ]]>Dec 4th 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/
However like a another commenter commented, if they sang Mr.Sandman I wouldn't be able to sleep.]]>Dec 4th 2009 2:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 2:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 3:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/
But it's too late, you're in the Uncanny Valley, and there's no getting out.]]>Dec 4th 2009 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 3:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/]]>Dec 4th 2009 5:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 5:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/
I mean the design gets it right by aiming for the imperfection of beauty, which adds a high level or realism and believability.

Notwithstanding a body, hair, and some key motorized touches, this is a significant improvement in robotic-human realism -- and evidently a solution to uncanny valley.]]>Dec 4th 2009 8:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Try psychologically treating them as rubber masks, the thought they're real faces just vanishes.
I think one aspect that might scare people a lot is the simple fact that its detached from a body, and even detached from a head. As soon as the camera moved round the back to show the meccano (UK name) style construct and the servo motors, the thought they could ever be real people totally vanished.
Also, 75 grand for a collection of computer controlled Servos (I'd bet there's an arduino in there somewhere) and good quality silicone masks? How do I sign up to become an 'artist' making that kind of dough for that effort!?
]]>Dec 4th 2009 6:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/]]>Dec 4th 2009 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/More Japanese Sailor Girl robots; Less five o'clock shadow guys.]]>Dec 4th 2009 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 7:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/
Only a matter of time now.]]>Dec 4th 2009 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/04/creepy-robotic-heads-serenade-your-wallet-from-deep-inside-the-u/Dec 4th 2009 8:57AM