The Man Who Mistook His Girlfriend For A Robot

[keraptis]

Now there's a great title for a story ... in this case, though, it's the title of a pretty cool article that, while completely devoid of fetish references, provides a nice in-depth look at a guy working on a robotic face that can mimic the full range of human facial expressions.

Check it out:
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/ar ... -1,00.html

[KOS-MOS]

Hate to break it to you, this was already brought to our attention by korby + ehy: As seen here.

[keraptis]

Oh well. Impossible to keep up with every thread on the board, and I guess it's better to have something show up twice than never at all.

[Svengli]

I wouldn't say there's no fetish content in this article.

From the third page:

"Hanson says he asked Nelson if he could measure her skull. She remembers it slightly differently: 'He asked, "Can I make you into a robot?"' Could he make her into a robot?"

The entire article would be foder for some very creepy but interesting fiction. It actually shows how realist robots could be the creation of a single obsessed genius rather than a gradual development.

And it seems to indicate a lot of the barriers to realistic robots are social, not scientific.

Which could be appealing or disturbing, depending on how you look at it.

Shades of Valerie 23

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