With each passing day, humanoid robots are growing more advanced, more powerful, and frankly more human.
In time, these emotive, communicative robots could replace much of the human workforce.
The science fiction tales of robotic overlords might be a little off base.
Soon, they may be replacing many of our jobs, not hunting us down in the streets.
Will these humanoid robots ultimately have an emotional connection with the humans they share a world with?
Here are just a few ways robots are becoming more eerily human with each new invention.
Its programmed to communicate with its human hosts through touch, voice, and emotion.
In short, its programmed to eventually become your best friend.
In other words, theyre making robots more human-like by introducing personality flaws into their programming.
Initially, hes doing this by making robots act in a similar fashion to a mouse in a cage.
It will hide until it becomes comfortable, then it will move across the room.
It will wait until if feels comfortable.
Scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology arent exactly what youd call ordinary, though.
Scientists at Carnegie-Mellon have successfully re-created the bias ina robot called Victor.
Hes a terrible loser, explains CMU robotics Professor Reid Simmons.
One of the things weve done in collaboration with the drama department is giving him different moods.
When he gets ahead he goes into a happy mood.
When hes losing he gets into an angry mood and hell trash-talk people and hell be self-deprecating.
Particularly tech-savvy individuals can even program their own applications and routines for Jimmy.
It doesnt really want to be an artist, though its real dream is to perform surgery.
Both robots will eventually be placed there in a permanent exhibit for the show Android: What is Human?
