7 years ago
Soft, Lifelike Robot 'Muscles' Are Creating 'Westworld'-Like Machines
The humanoid “robots” that walk, talk, and screw around in shows like HBO’s Westworld are unsettlingly realistic, largely because of how they move. Their smooth, lifelike motions, coupled with the premise that they are machines, puts them firmly in the uncanny valley. We’re used to spastic robots like the fictional R2-D2 or the real-life Pepper — cute, stuttering machines with endearingly clumsy moves are the robots we know and love.
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