The 2006 Chinese Robot Expo and International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems is over. You missed it.

Which might be a good thing, since the joint was overrun with replicants:

No really, Deckard better come out of retirement, because skin jobs are no longer fictional. Zou Renti of Xi’an Supermen Sculpture Institution (he’s the one on the left. Erm, the one on the right… No, no, the one on the left is Zou) sits next to his skin job (wait, is “skin job” politically incorrect? Is some robo-rights activist going to insist that I use the term “Replicant American?”) The doppelgänger’s skin is silica gel surrounding a robotic skeleton. It can talk, interact, and move. (But will it take ze pleazhurz from ze snake?)

The event, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Robotics Society of Japan, showcased much of Asia’s finest robots. Other robots weren’t all so realistic. Disney better watch its back as well.

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