Keiko Takahashi made these adorable little measuring tape robots. They move like snails, slowly inching forward. Her project is called “Meter Crawler”:
A meter crawler protrudes its steel measure four or eight cm. The body of the crawler follows the steel measure and thus moves forward. When it is taken away from floor, it stops moving, and the steel measure holds into the case. When it is on a floor, it starts protrudes its steel measure and move forward.
From Neatorama:
Actroid-F looks almost human. Not just in the way its face is sculpted, but the way that it moves. Guinness World Records lists it as the first true android. In the above video, the robot mimics the expressions of its operator. The people behind the project suggest that it could be placed in hospitals as an observer.
Japan’s AIST has impressed us before with its android robots, but this new video of gynoid HPR4C is enough to…well, seriously give us the shivers. She’s dancing, and if you squint, you’d almost mistake her for a real girl.