Jules: yet another creepy robot

I'm with Peaceflag. Not to sound naive, but comparing this to the Audio-Animatronics at, say, the American Adventure attraction at EPCOT... which have had facial and body articulation, walk up stairs (with the help of a hidden crane), and have performed their show ten times a day for the last twenty years or so... what does this do besides add a furrowed brow?

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#10 posted by Agies , November 13, 2008 11:10 AM

Reminds me of Seaman for some reason. God, I loved that game.

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#11 posted by absimiliard , November 13, 2008 11:10 AM

I was going to post about how much I hate these Uncanny Valley crossing robots, but then I read Lydia's comment.

Now I feel sorry for them instead.

-abs was the "odd" kid who got beat up on the schoolyard every day during recess, and he hasn't forgotten it, and he doesn't forgive, and if Jimmy McKee ever comes looking for a job to abs he'll learn that fact, guess that makes him the actually human incarnation of the Uncanny Valley . . . bummer.

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#12 posted by obeyken , November 13, 2008 11:41 AM

ew.

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#13 posted by isaacb2 , November 13, 2008 1:58 PM

A better robot would know you say "fewer cars," not "less cars."

They'll never take over the world if they can't master the simple rules of English grammar.

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#14 posted by Nerdberockin , November 13, 2008 2:32 PM

Where's Deckard when you need him? That's replicant talk that thing is espousin'.

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#15 posted by Anonymous , November 13, 2008 3:07 PM

They should at least give it some lowkey expressionless bored dialog and an appropriate voice to match its appearance.

Okay, gauntlet is tossed. Time for readers here to overdub some natural sounding dialog on top of this video and post to YouTube.

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#16 posted by Hanglyman , November 13, 2008 3:28 PM

If they could just make the movement smoother so he doesn't jerk around with every change of expression, it would actually be pretty convincing. Or, at least, even creepier.

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#17 posted by laffmakr , November 13, 2008 3:44 PM

Guess it's time.

Hail Robot Overlords!

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#18 posted by d13hwt , November 13, 2008 3:50 PM

HE'S BORED! AND HAS THE EYES OF A KILLER!

Fear.

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#19 posted by humanpower , November 13, 2008 4:26 PM

Ha, ha, laugh it up. This is all going to be very funny when we're holed-up in basements with anything that can be used as a weapon, listening to the disjoined, clanking sound of robot footsteps growing ever closer.

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#20 posted by dnafrequency , November 13, 2008 6:52 PM

If you're gonna make your robot a douchebag, at least try harder to make him a funny douchebag.

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#21 posted by minamisan , November 13, 2008 7:22 PM

it's missing two vital things:
(a) the view from his POV, showing everything in red with streaming data telling him to hunt and kill:
(b) the ending where he malfunctions and sparks/smoke start pouring from his orifices.

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#22 posted by Phikus , November 13, 2008 9:59 PM

I'm holding out for the Ruk model or the Andrea model for my money. 75 years after that we might finally get to Data / Lore, with a lot of smoking circuitry in between.

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#23 posted by Fayanora , November 14, 2008 4:24 AM

*Bows* BY YOUR COMMAND!

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#24 posted by Cool Products , November 14, 2008 7:21 AM

The movements that he makes with his eyes are the only thing that kept me from thinking that this was actually a real guy.

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#25 posted by Sork , November 15, 2008 6:44 AM

I will call this bot Frank because it's frank about its world domination plans. Also the english accent is a dead giveaway that it's evil.