Internet users across Asia rejoice! Well not yet… Those three severed cables that has been the cause of slow download speeds and crippled access speeds across Asia might just take some more days to get fully repaired. Apparently, a robot submarine is being used 200 metres under the Mediterranean to try and speed up the repair process.
Robots are becoming more and more advanced, and with Realistic Facial expressions, they are also becoming creepier.
We have seen some Celebrity Look Alike Robots before that showed realistic expressions and carried conversations. The one that looked like Kevin Spacey was named Jules, and the one presented below is the new Jules, with a wig and it has a few things to say.
Hiroshi Ishiguro from Osaka University is very well known for creating uncannily life-like androids. In the latest episode of the Robots podcast, Ishiguro introduces his android creations, including a robotic replicate of his then 5 year old daughter, a female android modeled after the NHK news announcer Ayako Fujii and a copy of himself, the Geminoid. He explains Android Science and how his explorations of the uncanny valley may help to understand human presence. This episode then features the last quarter of Science Fiction author Jack Graham's "Selkies".
Recent discoveries of water and Earth-like soil on Mars have set imaginations running wild that human beings may one day colonise the Red Planet. However, the first inhabitants might not be human in form at all, but rather swarms of tiny robots.
The movie "Wall-E," a futuristic tale of a trash-compacting robot, has become a money-making machine at the box office. Here are some key components of robotics:
