Meet the Telenoid R1, a Casper-like robot that will haunt your dreams

[Pretiacruento]

[url=http://io9.com/5601761/meet-the-telenoid-r1-a-casper+like-robot-that-will-haunt-your-dreams]Source[/url]
[url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1299890/Creepy-Telenoid-R1-robot-developed-Japanese-inventor.html]Another source[/url]
[url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/glance/7939659/bizarre-robot-mimics-human-gestures]And even another source (some more close-up pics)[/url]
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Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University created this Telenoid R1 robot to "transmit the presence" of its user from afar. The Telenoid R1 was designed to be generic as possible, but it also resembles an embryonic Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

The silicon-skinned Telenoid R1 was designed to be entirely featureless so that people in its presence can project their vision of the Telenoid's user onto the little glob.

[url=http://new.aec.at/repair/en/2010/07/16/hiroshi-ishiguro-telenoid/]Even Ishiguro and his team acknowledge that the Telenoid's appearance is a smidge disconcerting[/url]:

[quote]The unique appearance may be eery [sic] when we first see it. However, once we communicate with others by using the telenoid, we can adapt to it. If a friend speaks from the telenoid, we can imagine the friend's face on the telenoid's face. If we embrace it, we have the feeling, that we embrace the friend.[/quote]

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Hiroshi Ishiguro with his latest invention, the Telenoid R1, which he says can transmit the presence of a person from a long distance

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An elderly man communicates with his granddaughter via the new humanoid robot

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A girl receives a lesson via computer from the robot which is shaped like a child and composed of minimal human features

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9JyDQlHo1A[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YsURcVUNhE[/media][/release]
That has to be by far the scariest looking robot I've ever seen :ohdear:

[goon165]

It cannot be unseen.

[unoriginalname]

Imagine that thing moving towards you in a dark room. With no escape.

[Devodiere]

It's like a quadruple amputee cancer patient, I don't know if I'd look at a person the same after hearing their voice through that thing.

[Pretiacruento]

:iiam: <---- It looks like this emote!

[I]"It is a Telenoid R1"[/I] :v:

[djshox]

[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;23824263]:iiam: <---- It looks like this emote!

[I]"It is a Telenoid R1"[/I] :v:[/QUOTE]

well then,

:ms:

[Chrille]

I still eagerly wait for the day that robots look like the Terminator.

Like, the robot version of the terminator, not the Arnie one

[carcarcargo]

If you want to communicate with someone wouldn't you just use a phone rather than a creepy child robot?

[MrEndangered]

[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;23824173]
[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/03/article-0-0AABA213000005DC-257_468x471.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]

My God, even the inventor knows what a horrid thing this is. Nothing more needs to be said.

[slinkman]

Hi there telegram from the uncanny valley, they want their shit back.

[The Dude]

[QUOTE=Chrille;23824346]I still eagerly wait for the day that robots look like the Terminator.

Like, the robot version of the terminator, not the Arnie one[/QUOTE]

[img_thumb]http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gamepro-terminator-salvation-cover-2.jpg[/img_thumb]
"Hello sir, are you in need of assistance?"

[Chrille]

[QUOTE=Alan Ninja!;23824496][img_thumb]http://www.doobybrain.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gamepro-terminator-salvation-cover-2.jpg[/img_thumb]
"Hello sir, are you in need of assistance?"[/QUOTE]

Fuck yeah...

"now make me some pancakes"

[Splurgy_A]

It looks like it's suffering in the videos
"Why did you make me capable of feeling pain?"

[BOP]

:wtc:

[The Spocker]

He looks like an anorexic boo.

[ironman17]

Reminds me of the You're Not Perfect thing from some cartoon.

Thank god it isn't haunted or anything. At least I hope it ain't...

[Lazore]

looks like some kinky sex toy

[Swilly]

*dramatic glasses remove.*Myyyyyyyy god...what have they created!?

Now wait for the girlfriend versions of these.

[Pretiacruento]

[QUOTE=Lazore;23824612]looks like some kinky sex toy[/QUOTE]

I'm [B][U]positive[/U][/B] that's going to be the next step... I mean, they're japanese

They will make a hole in it and they will make phone calls to little girls :/

[Splurgy_A]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI[/media]
...mother?

[Electrocuter]

Can you imagine being in bed with this thing staring at you from the corner of the room.

That's some nightmare inducing shit.

[Awesomecaek]

Add some propulsion enabling levitation. Bricks will be shat.

[Doozle]

Looks like he's got flid arms.

[Jallen]

Oh you, Japan.

[Sickle]

Can it suck my dick?

[D2K5S1]

now put this into a RealDoll and you can have yourself an internet girlfriend

[Rosek]

[QUOTE=Splurgy_A;23824764] [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/#"]View YouTUBE video[/URL]

[URL]http://youtube.com/watch?v=rLy-AwdCOmI[/URL]

...mother?[/QUOTE]

Creepy. :ohdear:

[DOG-GY]

I honestly have no idea what this is designed to do, and I read the article.

Anyone care to explain it in an actually readable way?

[Wyvers]

Gotta get me one of these, it will scare the shit out of the kids.

[Murkat]

[img]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/08/03/article-0-0AABA213000005DC-257_468x471.jpg[/img]

"What the fuck is this!?"