Showa Hanaka 2 – a realistic silicon-faced dental training robot at Showa University in Japan can ‘autonomously turn its head, eyes, sneeze, cough, blink, and simulate choking. The robot has speech recognition capability and can hold conversations with students’.
*shudder*
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I think we’ve now discovered something more terrifying than going to the dentist.
Yes, for dentistry.
the worlds most advanced fleshlight
That’ll get dog’s abuse during Rag Week.
Christ. I wonder have they programmed in a gag-reflex too?
There’s a very disturbing Chuck Palahniuk story about something like that. I had managed to forget about it until just now…
we’re deep in the uncanny valley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley