Creepy Or Cute?

AliHajiSheik said:

I keep thinking that Japanese woman must be pretty up tight if Japanese men keep trying to make a better one they can control.

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This is the first step to Japanese Stepford Wives...

Very cute in a technological sense. Kinda of creepy with the jerky movement. They either need faster processors, better control software or improve/create artificial musculature.

I don't know what their current software load is, but they do need improvement it. It appears her reactions are slow, possibly due to long decision trees.

Definitely less creepy than the average person doing check out at Walmart. Probably would be a friendlier, better worker also that cost the company less to "hire".

I'd say humorous. For some reason when she was blinking and everything I started laughing. But kudos to researchers for such a life-like face.

Redress said:

The big Tokyo Design Week Expo just happened, and the big talk coming out of it was about an android named Asuna, which some think might be the first step past the "uncanny valley" and is really cute. Others don't think she made it and is really creepy. So here she is, and what do you think:

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Still in uncanny valley with this one. The reason is two fold, the smoothness of her motions and she has no motion, another words she is very stiff and artificial appearing. Real humans and animals in fact have a slight bit of motion to them because they especially when standing are constantly adjusting their balance and you can pick up on that with here because she is usually stiff. They loosen her up a bit and give her a bit of grace and smoothness she will surpass the uncanny valley.

molten_dragon said:

It looks pretty human until it moves. Then it's firmly in uncanny valley territory.

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That was my take. Standing there, it doesn't look REAL but looks like a very good reproduction of a human that could pass for a cute asian girl at quick glance.

The moment she started moving it basically was uncanny valley central. Like, the epitome of the definition of the word. Just unsettlingly creepy.

The person comparing it to movement in the grudge wins the thread

I'm going to side with a lot of conservatives/libertarians on this and say this f'n terrifying. I guess, it's cool and the mechanics involved probably interest me but if I was ever approached by one of these things, I'd shoot it.

Creepy and unnecessary.

Androids DON'T need to resemble Human beings.

Its a waste of effort that could be spent elsewhere.

Make the all look like C3PO and work on the one issue thats limiting the viability.

Fenton said:

Creepy and unnecessary.

Androids DON'T need to resemble Human beings.

Its a waste of effort that could be spent elsewhere.

Make the all look like C3PO and work on the one issue thats limiting the viability.

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I think this is the first time we've ever agreed on something.

I get creeped out because they're always designed as 'women' and there's no reason for them to look human aside from filling a gap in some ones social needs.

As a technology, it doesn't interest me in the slightest. She's hardly convincing either.

Redress said:

The big Tokyo Design Week Expo just happened, and the big talk coming out of it was about an android named Asuna, which some think might be the first step past the "uncanny valley" and is really cute. Others don't think she made it and is really creepy. So here she is, and what do you think:

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Neither creepy nor cute. This is nothing more than a sophisticated mannequin, or a doll.

A remarkable technical feat? Yeah sure, but keep in mind that this thing can't walk, it's movements are still quite unnatural, and it has no artificial intelligence.

These type of robots have a LONG way to go before they truly start to resemble humans in any sort of meaningful way.

Peter Grimm said:

Neither creepy nor cute. This is nothing more than a sophisticated mannequin, or a doll.

A remarkable technical feat? Yeah sure, but keep in mind that this thing can't walk, it's movements are still quite unnatural, and it has no artificial intelligence.

These type of robots have a LONG way to go before they truly start to resemble humans in any sort of meaningful way.

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I think a LONG way to go is far too ... long. We can now put 3,000x the memory of a 60s NASA hard drive on a damn microchip... With that said, I wouldn't be surprised if the first generation of household androids roll out within the next 10 years. This is a far cry from Asumo, however he proved that walking robots could be a reality. How long until some kid at Google figures out how to put all of these technologies together? I wouldn't say a long time.

Hatuey said:

I think a LONG way to go is far too ... long. We can now put 3,000x the memory of a 60s NASA hard drive on a damn microchip... With that said, I wouldn't be surprised if the first generation of household androids roll out within the next 10 years. This is a far cry from Asumo, however he proved that walking robots could be a reality. How long until some kid at Google figures out how to put all of these technologies together? I wouldn't say a long time.

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Animatronics have been around for a long time. Hell, just pay a visit to Disney World and go on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. This is simply a fancier version of an old technology.

I guess what I'm not really seeing is where there has been a big technical leap with this robot.

Peter Grimm said:

Animatronics have been around for a long time. Hell, just pay a visit to Disney World and go on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. This is simply a fancier version of an old technology.

I guess what I'm not really seeing is where there has been a big technical leap with this robot.

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I think you should look at it in terms of the hundreds of technologies existing around these inventions. We now have software which can recognize human needs. We have software that can read questions and answer correctly. We have robots that can walk without human intervention. We have robots that can mimic animal movement. We have hydrophobic tissue. We have software capable of analyzing movement and recognizing human faces. How long until someone puts a few of these together and creates a robot that resembles a human? I mean, yeah it's futuristic in theory but I don't think it's as far as you may think. There are probably 20-30 people in the world today who could make it happen and I think they will within the next 10-20 years. That's not a long time considering electricity was only really harnessed on an industrial level about 100 years ago.