FARK.com: (6712420) Japan continues its near-herculean efforts to corner the market on creepy by projecting a human face on the inside of a mask worn by a robot

		Japan continues its near-herculean efforts to corner the market on creepy by projecting a human face on the inside of a mask worn by a robot (physorg.com)		36
		More: Scary, Japan, Haunted Mansion, ICs, mobile robots, robots, Dr. Takaaki Kuratate

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RexTalionis

2011-11-07 03:13:20 PM

This reminds me of the Tron Legacy action figures with the moving faces.

I wonder what they'll do to ramp up the creepy factor for their next robots. Maybe having a robot with a human face cut from a cadaver and manipulated by actuators and motors sewn into the face?

AdolfOliverPanties

2011-11-07 03:31:45 PM

What makes me sad is how I will either be in my 90s or dead when they perfect the completely lifelike Cylon Six sex robot.

FloydA

2011-11-07 03:34:34 PM

RexTalionis: This reminds me of the Tron Legacy action figures with the moving faces.

I wonder what they'll do to ramp up the creepy factor for their next robots. Maybe having a robot with a human face cut from a cadaver and manipulated by actuators and motors sewn into the face?

Severed clown head, grasping titanium claws, and a nine inch long, barbed, personal neck massaging device.

fluffy2097

2011-11-07 04:59:17 PM

I blame this all on Masamune Shirow for making Ghost in the Shell.
www.smh.com.au

He's been doing the humanoid android thing for decades now.

/Would totally do it with Motoko Kusanagi
//Unfortunately, I think she likes girls.

Cagey B

2011-11-07 05:00:17 PM

Can they put the mask on one of those EATR robots that can consume organic matter to power itself? Oh, and can it make the sounds of laughing children filtered through a warped, slightly slowed down record?

Also, can it be programmed to recognize faces of people it encounters and use the data to project the face of the person it's looking at onto its mask?

doglover

2011-11-07 05:03:29 PM

RexTalionis: I wonder what they'll do to ramp up the creepy factor for their next robots.

Fiction:

26.media.tumblr.com

Fact:

I don't think they NEED to step up the creepy. It's already at 11.

ProfessorOhki

2011-11-07 05:04:01 PM

Hmm, would it look more disturbing with a uncanny valley face?

www.bg-cnc.com

/hot

Der Poopflinger

2011-11-07 05:05:55 PM

RexTalionis: This reminds me of the Tron Legacy action figures with the moving faces.

I wonder what they'll do to ramp up the creepy factor for their next robots. Maybe having a robot with a human face cut from a cadaver and manipulated by actuators and motors sewn into the face?

my kids have those tron guys, and it's just like that.

bhcompy

2011-11-07 05:07:38 PM

Nuke takes on new meaning

Sangi

2011-11-07 05:15:20 PM

Next we'll have people donating thier faces for charity. It'll be like us donating and getting a brick with our name on it.

i245.photobucket.com

DrunkGeek

2011-11-07 05:15:55 PM

"Why do ya give em faces? Try to friendly em all up. I guess if you didn't, we wouldn't trust em."

Maynotlast

2011-11-07 05:21:15 PM

Done it. "http://file:///Users/michaelcurtis/Desktop/v-bustssing.jpg

Mr_Fabulous

2011-11-07 05:21:26 PM

Japan continues its near-herculean efforts to corner the market on creepy...

What? The soiled-panty vending machines and tentacle pr0n weren't enough already?

moralpanic

2011-11-07 05:45:08 PM

Man, we are so close to having real life-like robots. We have the AI (Watson), we have the voice recognition, we have the visual capability (kinect). Another 10 years and we'll have the CPU (right now Watson is a supercomputer) and graphene will be cost effective enough to use. The only thing we're missing is a real leap forward in batteries.

Maynotlast

2011-11-07 05:52:31 PM

Farked that up. I was trying to add a photo of the 3D talking busts at the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. How do you add a photo to Fark, anyhow?

ProfessorOhki

2011-11-07 05:57:53 PM

Maynotlast: Farked that up. I was trying to add a photo of the 3D talking busts at the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. How do you add a photo to Fark, anyhow?

Easiest way is to paste the link, highlight it and hit the second from the right button above the text box. That or just manually use <img src="url_goes_here" />

The problem you're having is that seems to be a file on your local PC, Fark doesn't do uploading. You need to already have it on the net somewhere. Tinypic and photobucket are common places to host images for free.

FloydA

2011-11-07 06:02:33 PM

Maynotlast: Farked that up. I was trying to add a photo of the 3D talking busts at the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. How do you add a photo to Fark, anyhow?

There are a couple of different ways. The easiest (and most reliable) is if you have an image host. There are a bunch of free ones. Each one has a slightly different set of buttons to click to transfer things from your hard drive to the host, and then it will give you a bit of HTML code that you can paste in the Fark text window.

It takes a few more steps to host photos, but it's a lot safer than hot linking, since it protects you from pickle incidents.

Image Shack (new window) is a pretty popular, convenient, free image host that is really easy to use. There are lots of others though.

Maynotlast

2011-11-07 06:07:31 PM

ProfessorOhki: Maynotlast: Farked that up. I was trying to add a photo of the 3D talking busts at the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. How do you add a photo to Fark, anyhow?

Easiest way is to paste the link, highlight it and hit the second from the right button above the text box. That or just manually use <img src="url_goes_here" />

The problem you're having is that seems to be a file on your local PC, Fark doesn't do uploading. You need to already have it on the net somewhere. Tinypic and photobucket are common places to host images for free.

That's what I did the first time but when I hit "post" it said "Throwing away non-image image URL."

Cytokine Storm

2011-11-07 06:19:49 PM

AdolfOliverPanties: What makes me sad is how I will either be in my 90s or dead when they perfect the completely lifelike Cylon Six sex robot.

img254.imageshack.us

Don't Tongue the Reaper!

2011-11-07 06:24:30 PM

Tony Oursler's been doing it for a while:

4.bp.blogspot.com

TheWizard

2011-11-07 06:31:33 PM

Didn't they have this in the haunted mansion at Disneyworld?

F42

2011-11-07 06:43:45 PM

Yup, creepy as fark. (new window)

Prof. Ann Marion

2011-11-07 06:44:47 PM

TheWizard: Didn't they have this in the haunted mansion at Disneyworld?

TFA: Many comparable systems project faces onto the front of a mask - following the same concept as cinema projection. "Walt Disney was a pioneer in this field back in the 1960s," explains Kuratate. "He made the installations in his Haunted Mansion by projecting the faces of grimacing actors onto busts." Whereas Walt Disney projected images from the front, the makers of Mask-bot use on-board rear projection to ensure a seamless face-to-face interaction.

Nobody reads anymore

just passing through

2011-11-07 06:44:57 PM

Japan rules. When they're not having natural disasters. Or being attacked by Godzilla.

spectrum17

2011-11-07 07:12:37 PM

Fantastic, now all robots will look alike to me

Cosmoboy

2011-11-07 07:35:21 PM

AdolfOliverPanties: What makes me sad is how I will either be in my 90s or dead when they perfect the completely lifelike Cylon Six sex robot.

You're doing it wrong.
/waiting for the Boomer and 3 models.

Ed Finnerty

2011-11-07 08:01:31 PM

Either way, creepy stuff.

Mattix

2011-11-07 08:38:32 PM

// Be careful....they eat books

somemoron

2011-11-07 09:14:23 PM

Hmmm... kinda looks like the movie AI, only less steampunky.

xanadian

2011-11-07 09:18:56 PM

OH, THOSE WACKY JAPANESE!!!

*laugh track*

rdyb

2011-11-07 09:25:24 PM

In a few years when Apple buys this technology, everybody will siriously think they invented it.

Sucks that so much good mainstream tech is stuck in walled gardens, and will be for the foreseeable future until the patent system undergoes drastic changes.

RatMaster999

2011-11-08 01:56:16 AM