Science Illustrated

This robot is extremely creepy

- Photo // Matt Cardy

Robot engineer Mike Humphrey puts the finishing touches to “Fred”, a 1.75-cm-tall robot, that can both speak and move like human being. Humphrey's company, British Engineered Arts, develops robots for the entertainm­ent industry, and in order to make the robots as lifelike as possible, engineers make 3D scans of real people. The data is not only used to fine-tune the robots’ looks, but also to fine-tune facial animation.

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