The Uncanny Valley has gotten VERY uncanny.

So I saw this on reddit just now and holy fuck this is the most uncanny valley reaching thing I have ever seen... fuck when they show it moving at the begining, and near the end... chills man, chills. Normally this kinda shit doesn't bother me but damn, there's something really unsettling about it when it mimics THAT well...

http://video.foxnews.com/v/2094938759001/robot-baby-learns-how-to-express-human-emotions/?intcmp=obnetwork

I'm equally as disturbed by the guy doing the report who sounds like he's recording a Youtube review for some obscure japanese dating-simulator game.

Yeah, how the hell does a guy like that get a job on TV.

That's what I take from it as well.

Given that this was posted in EKT I thought it was gonna be about some new synth, a synth so lush its snares were entirely indistinguishable from sharts

Holy shit, worst narrator ever. Also, I'm moving this to the General Banter...

meh. the 'reporter' was fucking ridiculous though.

They should have given it Arnie's face.

euaugh

horrible narrator aside, am i the only one who thinks that is one fugly robot? they need to work on that things face a bit more. either way, this is kinda cool. not too long till iRobot shit goes down now.

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, rrmmmmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmmmohhhhhhhhhh

*slaps*

bring it all together now and let the robots smile while their butts are fondled

edit: holy lol at the music in that butt video, NSFL

  On 1/16/2013 at 6:23 PM, Squee said:

Holy shit, worst narrator ever. Also, I'm moving this to the General Banter...

oops, thanks Squee forgot I had EKT open when I posted, thought I had posted to GenBanter I probably shouldn't start threads at 4am lol..

And of course the Narrator is terrible it's a Fox (Faux) News link

Chucky for president

Robot strippers, prostitutes, drug dealers, mafia, porn stars, gardeners, rapists. You can get a robot to do anything. He could even steal your soda from you while you're not looking. Then when you look back, he'll have this enormous grin on his face, and when you try to punch him he injects you with tranquilizing serum. His powers of evil are endless. This is what the "dark side" is - all that "POWAH" Vader was hooked on - it's drugs man. Diego is going to grow up to kill his master and start world wars unlike anything we've seen before.

Also HAHAHAHAHA at the buttocks video

someone should give this baby

  On 1/16/2013 at 9:51 PM, baph said:

someone should give this baby

 

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lol

why would they encode a 2 minute video clip as 2gb?

You think that shit's uncanny?

when it comes to human-aping robots, I'm always amazed by how little progress we've made. I mean these things aren't much better than those crappy animatronics they used to have at disneyland as a kid...

  On 1/16/2013 at 11:51 PM, usagi said:

  On 1/16/2013 at 8:14 PM, luke viia said:

 

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh, rrmmmmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmmmohhhhhhhhhh

 

 

*slaps*

 

bring it all together now and let the robots smile while their butts are fondled

 

edit: holy lol at the music in that butt video, NSFL

 

lol

 

I randomly recalled that ass just the other day, we had a thread about it IIRC. for an artifical ass that was built for spanking, that is the worst result possible.

How did they find that song that was used in the butt video?

"Robot Baby Learns How To Express Human Emotions"

I can't stop laughing at that for some reason.

I just keep thinking of some poor neglected orphan robobaby that finally learns the meaning of joy. Like a weird sci-fi indie heartwarming movie about autistic robots in the future. Zooe Deschanel plays the single human mom who adopts robobaby; Michael Cera is the love interest. They learn the true meaning of love, robot or human. Directed by Wes Anderson.

lol

can't stop thinking of astroboy after watching that

in the rolling hills between the canny and uncanny valleys....