That Robot With the Super Creepy Facial Expressions Is Back, and Yikes – Futurism

Yep, it's still as weird as ever.Only in Ameca

UK-based robotics company Engineered Arts made a huge splash last month with a teaser video of its humanoid robot, with many eerily uncanny expressions, which went viral on social media.

Even the likes of Elon Musk commented on the video, noting just how unsettling it was to watch the robots perfectly executed impressions.

Now, we finally get to see more of the robot in action. Engineered Arts took its robot called Ameca its a she according to its owners, by the way to this years CES convention in Las Vegas, and had it sit down for an interview with CNET.

The experience was just as uncanny as we expected,and also made it clear that the extraordinary bot is not the result of CGI trickery.

Ameca really looks like she was yanked straight out of a sci-fi movie.

Weve all seen it in the movies, weve all seen I, Robot and AI Artificial Intelligence,' Morgan Roe, Engineered Arts director of operations, told CNET via Zoom. And suddenly, thats real.

While Ameca herself didnt talk during the interview, the humanoid robot appeared to react to what Roe was saying, as if a somewhat over-expressive human of flesh and blood was actually standing next to him.

Roe also explained that Ameca wasnt 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.

So what will Ameca actually do?

This is mainly probably service robotics, Roe told CNET, noting that it would take say ten to 20 years for Ameca to mingle with real humans.

Roe also explained how the robot can track peoples faces using two cameras in each of its eyes.

Its a beautiful example of humanoid robotics being taken to its logical conclusion,andan impressive feat of engineering that shows just how far the technology has come.

Just dont stare into Amecas eyes for too long or you might just get fooled into thinking shes real.

READ MORE: Ameca the robot is more human (and haunting) than I ever imagined [CNET]

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