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  • Is this the world's creepiest robot? Japanese inventor develops the bald, legless Telenoid R1

    08/03/2010 10:10:04 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 29 replies · 16+ views
    Daily Mail ^ | 1:34 PM on 3rd August 2010 | Daily Mail Reporter
    Its pale torso is about the size of a small child, it has no legs and just stumps for arms. For a man who has made his life's work coming up with increasingly creepy robots, Hiroshi Ishiguro has really outdone himself this time. The Japanese roboticist has just unveiled his latest creation - a strange robotic creature called the Telenoid R1. Ishiguro has, in the past, tried to exactly replicate living humans and once developed an eerie robot replica of himself that he named Geminoid HI-1. He also came up with a terrifyingly lifelike female robot called the Gemnoid F....