Move Over, Data, Here's Geminoid DK!

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New Amazingly Lifelike Android Better Than Star Trek's Data.

Universe Today said:
Even though the Star Trek character “Data” was played by a human, this new android might be more life-like. Watch the video, and I think you’ll agree that it is hard to tell (at first) that this is a robot. It’s called Geminoid DK, built by the Intelligent Robotics lab at Osaka University and designed by professor Hiroshi Ishiguro. Just like Data was modeled after his creator Doctor Noonian Soong, the Geminoid DK is created in the likeness of professor Henrik Scharfe of Aalborg University in Denmark. Not sure if it can whistle or if it remembers every fact to which it is exposed, but Geminoid DK has a better hairdo (and beard) than Data, and it can smile.

Cool and creepy. It looks like a regular guy...until it smiles. :chair
 

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They really need to work on his smile. But until then, if I saw a guy on the street that looked like that, I would never think it was an android.
 

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Neat, but I think something that would be far more impressive would be an AI that convinces us of it's humanity, even if it's contained in a box with some speakers.