#eccerobot

[squishedegg]

Huge fan of robots with exposed wires...

I can be trusted around robots I promise

[roboethics]

[slyoyster]

The Latest Unnecessarily Terrifying Robot

ECCEROBOT is an anthropomimetic robot, built with artificial bones, muscles, and tendons to move the way humans do. It's both exhilarating to think this is how far robots have come and terrifying when you look at the robot's face and see that giant, singularly soulless eye starring at you.

It's obviously going to be a long while before there are helper robots out in the wild, but combine this with the advances in AI and it seems like it's not too far off from an era when robots will be fighting our wars for us. Wait, that's not a good thing, though. Let's just put this back in the closet. Call me when our robots are more like Rosie from The Jetsons. I want a robot that can open her belly and give me a full stack of flapjack, mkay? [via toplessrobot]

[osxrising]

Eccerobot: This Humanoid Robot has Muscles, Joints, Tendons 

[a-skynet-future]

Robot With A Human Skeleton

Robot with muscles, tendons and joints does a good job of mimicking human movements.

Only a matter of time before Skynet infiltrates us with one of these bad boys!

[francesspiegel-blog]

What can robots do for us? Why are they important? Who needs them and why? See 20 robots, and talk with their inventors, at the Science Museum, London, on 1st to 4th December 2011.

[twicr]

Eccerobot: Behold! It's Some Kinda Creepy

Swiss roboticists have created what some claim is the world's most advanced robot, which might be true if by "advanced" you mean "super creepy."

You see, Eccerobot has bones and tendons just like a real human boy, though for some reason its builders forgot to put skin on those bones. Ecci also has one big eye like a cyclopse and it moves sort of like a drunken sailor. But I'll let Hugo Gravato Marquesto explain his hot mess of a robot. 

But lest you think we have nothing to fear from a wobbly, one-eyed thinking machine, consider the children. They don't have enough sense to be afraid of things like Ecci, so to them it's just a big toy or their big, wobbly buddy. 

It won't be long now before these kids cede humanity's dominance to their clumsy cyborg friend.