Robots with Eerily Human Facial Expressions

By Alex in Science & Tech on Sep 13, 2008 at 8:34 am

National Geographic News has a great video clip of robots that have eerily human facial expressions:

The research they’ve done into how the human body actually moves … they’ve got servo-motors attached to where tendons would be in the human skulls … they’ve got the muscles stimulated so they’re pulling and moving to get beautifully articulated faces …

Link – Thanks Marilyn!


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Neat stuff from the NeatoShop:

  1. Jake D.
    Sep 13th, 2008 at 5:31 pm

    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

  2. Fail Funnies
    Sep 13th, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    I can’t wait to get a robot. The first thing I will make it do is get me a beer out of the fridge ;>)

  3. Berzerk3r
    Sep 13th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

    Too cool.

  4. CourtC777
    Sep 14th, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    The robot looks totally high…


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