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Child robot is much more unsettling than a real child

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This is Zeno, a lifelike child robot built by inventor David Hanson. Named and modeled after his own real-life son, Zeno is a mildly-creepy little guy with a "frubber" face that displays a wide range of emotions.

It's loaded with facial-recognition software, so it'll know who you are and react accordingly, for better or for worse. It can't really interact with you vocally yet, but they're working on adding that sort of functionality to make it a learning tool for kids. Also, as of now he's powered by a computer he connects to wirelessly, and they hope to make him self-contained eventually. But really, at the end of the day, he still creeps me out.

Daily Mail, via Spulch

 
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