Creepy Hospital Droid Watches You When You're Sick
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Not sure if anyone said this yet, but the disgust most people feel when seeing a lifelike robot has been studied, this is is known as the "uncanny valley" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
I can tell it's a robot. Also, am I the only one to have one of these show up at their house, demanding to know where Sara Cohner is?
Nope, I noticed. Creepiest thing about the entire video for me. Creepy robot? That's merely creepy. Creepy cameraman shooting creepy robot beaver? That's nightmare fuel.DazBurger said:
The head movements weren't the worst part, it was the way her eyes twitched and her mouth gaped open...
I think after a while you get kind of used to it though, she's straddling the uncanny valley for sure but it looks like she might come out on the right side, with some time...
I think after a while you get kind of used to it though, she's straddling the uncanny valley for sure but it looks like she might come out on the right side, with some time...
Holy fucking shit! For the first 20 seconds of the video, I was wondering "Where the hell is the robot?"
You've got to wonder what the point is. If the robot has to mimmick a person's head movements as an input method, why not just place the person in the robot's position? Do it's eyes function as cameras that can alert someone if the patient needs assistance? Can one person remotely control multiple robots simultaneously?
Seems to me like Japan is the world leader in useless and expensive technology.
You've got to wonder what the point is. If the robot has to mimmick a person's head movements as an input method, why not just place the person in the robot's position? Do it's eyes function as cameras that can alert someone if the patient needs assistance? Can one person remotely control multiple robots simultaneously?
Seems to me like Japan is the world leader in useless and expensive technology.
I believe we'll have the Cylon's helping out in the west as well good sir and gods willing we'll have Titans from the Warhammer 40K lore helping us out in the giant mech department against those Gundams.teh_Canape said:
OT: For me while it's highly impressive that they'd built something like this that uncanny valley effect really hits home for me when it has those little breaks that ruin the image of it being a person. As much as I love tech stuff and the march of progess for some reason things like that make me want to have a flesh and blood nurse taking care of me.
Doesn't surprise me, really. They already have maid and giant spider robots, why not a nurse? It also gains no points of creativity for where it came from. I mean, do you expect a human robot to ever come out of the West? No, we're too busy making robot guns to make robot maids. But the East? If there is ever a robot that doesn't come from Japan and looks human, I will eat my hat.
