This is the latest iterationn of the
Geminoid-F, a successor to the original Geminoid 'bot designed by Hiroshi Ishiguro of ATR, the man behind the
Telenoid and
Elfoid robotic nightmares. This model, however, was created outside of Japan, a first for the series. This Geminoid-F, which comes from Aalborg University in Denmark, is in some respects simpler than the original version -- but disturbingly more realistic. The skin and hair are almost indistinguishable from that of a real person (at least, in photos and video) and it even blinks and "breathes." After the break, check out a few videos of what will inevitably be seen as a direct ancestor of the
T-800.
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