The most stand-out feature is definitely the expressiveness of the eyes, but the slow, smooth, and yet oddly decisive moves are also very human. WeвЂ™re told that they value their clientвЂ™s confidentiality - and more importantly they donвЂ™t judge.ДЄt this point you should watch the two videos below, the first of which was shot by IEEE Spectrum at the Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) conference in San Francisco. The girly, anime face is just a custom skin, incidentally: Meka will customize the shell to look like anything you desire. She weighs 7.6kg (16.7lbs), has a pair of luminous, waggling doggy-like ears, and can be attached to a Meka torso and arm, if you prefer your robots to be slightly more corporeal.

Introducing Meka RoboticsвЂ™ S2 Humanoid Head: It has seven degrees of freedom, high-resolution FireWire cameras in each eye, zero-backlash Harmonic Drive gearing in the neck, and a ton of unnervingly-human movements and postures. It seems, as a culture, we have a deep-seated interest in robots and automatons, and if we can love an animal or other non-humanoid creature, whatвЂ™s to stop us from falling in love with a robot? And if you had the choice of falling in love with an amorphous, decidedly odd-looking furball, or a cute, perky anime girl, which would you choose? When we first covered the emerging field of lovotics, the science of human-robot love, we had no idea that it would turn out to be one of the most popular stories ever published on ExtremeTech.

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