Creepy Japanese Expression-Mimicking Robot Hangs Out In Hospitals, "Comforting" Patients
Posted on 28. Oct, 2010 by admin in Robots
The Actroid-F Doing Its Best To Approximate Human Expression
As if being laid up in the hospital wasn’t traumatic enough already, imagine having a humanoid robot coming to visit you and eerily mimicking your facial expressions – its pink-sleeved arms resting primly in its lap, its hair pinned back with a bobby pin (as if having hair in its face would bother it), its head movements just jerky enough to make a mockery of your pain. Some lucky patients in Japan will now get to experience this haunting scenario, as the latest version of Geminoid is installed in hospitals to act as an observer and “gauge patient reactions.”
The only good news is that the bot’s legs don’t work, though this is likely small comfort to bedridden patients with little hope for escape. Watch the horror:
Hermitbiker
Oct 29th, 2010
…. not bad…. will they have a version of “her” that “comforts” sex addicts in the future !!