Quote Originally Posted by ataraxis View Post
I don't see how this is so so amazing... the only reason it is life-like is the aesthetic/design quality. The actual abilities of perception don't seem to have any ground-breaking life like qualities to it. I mean... you can hear how clearly they all talked. Any basic computer can do the talking part. For example, speech to text microphones with error-correction, then a "robot" system that comes up with some basic responses that are obvious to that and then a text to speech program that makes him talk. the AIM robot "smarter child" can already respond to what you say... Some basic sensors that detect faces (we have this in like, webcams already MSN has this feature that zooms in on a face). Other basic sensors. Throw some fake skin and get an artist to cover his face up realistically, and program "facial features." Sorry I'm being so cynical, but I don't see why this is so real and great, other than it LOOKS real. MOST "robots" nowadays are not made to look like humans, but they have much much better sensory abilities than this robot does. People just don't find them so amazing because the engineers didn't take into account the aesthetic portion of the robot.
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Good point, buuut

I'm sure a bit more people would have read your post if you had some some credibility behind you and it wasn't so long