Polish engineers have unveiled a frighteningly realistic humanoid robot called Protoclone
Polish startup Clone Robotics has unveiled a humanoid robot called Protoclone V1.
This android is characterised by a high degree of realism due to detailed imitation of human anatomy.
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The presented robot is both exciting and terrifying, as it is indeed extremely human-like with some reservations.
The robot is equipped with more than 1,000 artificial muscles filled with fluid pumped by an electric pump, as well as an advanced sensor system that includes four depth cameras in the skull for machine vision, 70 inertial sensors to track joint position and 320 pressure sensors for force feedback.
The developers claim that the robot will be able to learn new actions while observing people.
Protoclone V1 is reminiscent of androids from science fiction, but the most associations are with the TV series Westworld, and we can only hope that humanity will find a better use for robots than in the HBO story.
Source: Livescience
