NOVA correspondent Chad Cohen meets a friendly humanoid robot that assures him it will put him comfortably in a “people zoo” once the robocalypse comes and machines rule the Earth.
As if that’s not unsettling enough, the robot’s lifelike appearance is modeled on legendary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick, whose books were the basis for dark visions of the future like Blade Runner, Minority Report and A Scanner Darkly.
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Is This The Ultimate Woman?
Technology merges best parts of some of the world’s most beautiful celebrities.
Each stands alone as one of the world’s most beautiful women.
So put them all together and the result would surely be the ultimate head-turner. Or would it?
Well now, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, you can judge for yourself.
After a poll to discover which parts of female stars women most admired and desired, an image of what is being called the ‘ultimate celebrity’ has been created.
Beneath the Duchess of Cambridge’s tumbling shiny hair, you will find the chocolate brown eyes of singer Cheryl Cole, the nose of actress Kate Beckinsale and the cheeks of fellow Hollywood star Keira Knightley.
Eyebrows come courtesy of Transformers actress Megan Fox and the perfect chin is apparently found on still another actress, Gwyneth Paltrow.
Those bee-stung lips could only be Angelina Jolie’s, and the ultimate celebrity’s decolletage belongs to busty TV presenter Kelly Brook.
The inclusion of Prince William’s new wife in the poll of more than 9,000 people – by online beauty retailer Feel Unique – is no surprise.
Her perfectly coiffeured curls have been credited with everything from a boom in hair products to an increase in women dyeing their hair brown.
A Giant Robotic Snake Chases Man
Cheese on crackers, would it be fun to work at the eatART robotics collective in Vancouver. In addition to building awesomely biomimetic vehicles like Mondo Spider, they’re currently working on Titanoboa, a mechanical recreation of the 50-foot-long, one-ton prehistoric snake of the same name.
Here’s a video of these machines (almost) colliding — it’s like real-world Enthiran! Finally, a He-Man plot I wrote as kindergarten fan fiction nearly two decades ago now exists in Canada. And here are some other less intimidating snake robots.
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