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Nurse Robot Cheerfully Smiles, Ensures Years of Nightmares

by Warren Riddle on October 29, 2010 at 07:20 AM

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Japan's Kokoro robotics company earned recognition last year for its innocuous and heartwarming (and just slightly disturbing) DIY robot girlfriend kit. The company has apparently grown bored with benevolent companion-bots, though, as it has partnered with the terrifying thought-control engineers from Advanced Telecommunications Research (ATR).

Kokoro and ATR recently released a video demonstration of the amazing Actroid-F, an automaton intended to act "as an observer in hospitals to gauge patient reactions." The exceptionally realistic Actroid-F brandishes a wide array of facial expressions, projects a variety of human emotions, and easily overshadows other interactive robot companions we've seen. But we're wary of Actroid ever coming to the U.S. -- lest we start up all that "scary science" and "death panel" rhetoric again.

Tags: actroid-f, Advanced Telecommunications Research, AdvancedTelecommunicationsResearch, kokoro, robot nurse, robot nurses, RobotNurse, RobotNurses, top

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