Yep, it's still as weird as ever.
, noting just how unsettling it was to watch the robot's perfectly executed impressions.
Now, we finally get to see more of the robot in action. Engineered Arts took its robot called Ameca — it's a "she" according to its owners, by the way — to this year's CES convention in Las Vegas, and had it sit down forThe experience was just as uncanny as we expected, and also made it clear that the extraordinary bot is not the result of CGI trickery.
Roe also explained that Ameca wasn't meant to visually mimic an actual human being, noting that the team intentionally "pulled it backwards out of the uncanny valley" by giving it a deliberately robotic look."This is mainly probably service robotics," Roe toldRoe also explained how the robot can track people's faces using two cameras in each of its eyes.
It's a beautiful example of humanoid robotics being taken to its logical conclusion, and an impressive feat of engineering that shows just how far the technology has come. Just don't stare into Ameca's eyes for too long or you might just get fooled into thinking she's real.