ECCE the anthropomimetic robot: A robot with all the inner structures and mechanisms of a human (including bones, joints, muscles, and tendons), giving it a greater potential for human-like action and interaction in the world.
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Really cool. This has great body part replacement applications.
I've seen a couple articles recently about an objective view of the human body; somewhere someone said a bipedal being would be much better off with four spines, and that one is just bad design. So now that we're able to make better and better anthropomorphic robots, maybe it's time to think more about exactly how we can improve on the human form, both in our robots and in ourselves.
All it needed was blood and it would have looked extremely creepy.
I have seen something like the Eccerobot in several science-fiction horror movies. These creatures have all been amazingly terrible. People would like Eccerobots as their neighbors, wouldn't they? They could e.g. manage a kindergarden.
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