Company Takes Robot Realism to New Level

November 23rd, 2006 in Electronics / Robotics
Company Takes Robot Realism to New Level (AP)

President Bush shakes hands with 'Albert Hubo,' a 54-inch-tall, two-legged robot topped with a head made in the image of Albert Einstein as leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum toured South Korea's hi-tech exhibition in Busan, South Korea, in this Nov. 18, 2005, file photo. David Hanson, owner of Hanson Robotics in Dallas, Texas, and creator of "Albert Hubo", is working on another robot made in the image of Einstein, which will have a head similar to Hubo\'s, but a different robotic body. (AP Photo/Yonhap)

(AP) -- David Hanson's robots can creep people out. Their heads are so lifelike, their skin so textured and realistic, that Candy Sidner, a competing roboticist, called his Albert Einstein robot "spookily cool ... a giant step forward."

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