THE FUTURE DOES NOT COMPUTE

These Japanese researchers HAVE to stop making their robots look like humans. It’s just too damn creepy. Just take a look at their latest creation, Diego-san, the extremely disproportionate 1 year old. Built to imitate a human child, this robot is apparently helping them learn more about human child development.

This creature from hell has over 60 moving parts, the most sophisticated to date. And if it was not scary enough, it has 20 moving parts alone for facial expressions, guaranteeing a beautiful grin a la Child’s Play style.

via Boing Boing

What the heck is a Keepon you may ask? Keepon is a small yellow japanese robot designed by Hideki Kozima to study social interaction mainly amongst kids but also adults. This small cute yellow robot has been recently featured in Spoon’s newest music video for “Don’t You Evah” as a Japanese scientist takes the robot to the streets of Japan to see how people react. See if you can spot the band members throughout the video:

Why don’t we get any Japanese channels here in the US?! If all they had was shows like this I would never leave the house.