The Nightmare in Silicon Valley: 8 horror technologies that should scare you to death
Every night is fright night with what can happen once these scary technologies take hold in ways that you may not have imagined.
Some robots are designed to be cute and approachable. This is not that gallery.
Based very closely on a human mouth, this nightmarish monstrosity uses an air pump for lungs and has fake vocal cords, a silicon tongue, and a nasal resonance cavity that opens and closes. The idea is to figure out how to anatomically replicate the human mouth, which will go a long way toward making robots more realistic. Professor Sawada's robot mouth can hear itself speak, which enables it to analyze what it's doing and make itself more intelligible. More than we can say for some humans.
Caption by: Greg Nichols
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