“No mom, she’s not a piece of hardware for my PC. She’s my date for the Prom!” From the looks of this ‘Actroid’ below, this might very well become a real conversation in the near future…

We talked about the information robot this morning, and that one looked like a Japanese receptionist sat on a chair behind a counter… and it’s quite easy in that way to hide the robotic parts. So what if a couple of Japanese take it a step further? this is ACTROID, a true human-sized android. Even though it cannot move (it’s glued to the floor), it’s still very disturbing. From a distance, it could really be confused for a real, flesh and blood human being. The future is approaching… really fast! Tomorrow we’ll bring more news on other very cool robots (that look like real robots too) and plenty more videos too! [Read the rest]