A Real Valley Girl
April 13th, 2007 by SB. . .the Uncanny Valley, that is.
Meet Eva. She’s the creation of robotics designer David Hanson.
Hanson is best known for his work with KAIST (the Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology) the people who brought you the KHR-1 bipedal robot kung fu artist [digression: I ask you, is there any better phrase that "Robot Kung Fu"? We didn't think so either].
Hanson is also known for the eerily awesome Philip K. Dick Conversational Android, and now, Eva. Eva takes you on a screaming fast road trip through the Uncanny Valley and doesn’t even let you stop to pee.
Take a look at this demo Hanson did at the Exploratorium a while back:
For your inspiration of sheer delight and not a little uneasiness,
Suicidebots.com declares YOU
“Cool Robot Of The Week”
With all the completely useless yet honorary privileges that implies.
Three cheers will make her smile, but will probably make small children cry.
