{"id":132262,"date":"2021-12-12T04:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T12:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/humanoid-robots-are-waking-up-and-they-look-eerily-real"},"modified":"2021-12-12T04:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T12:22:30","slug":"humanoid-robots-are-waking-up-and-they-look-eerily-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/humanoid-robots-are-waking-up-and-they-look-eerily-real","title":{"rendered":"Humanoid robots are waking up \u2014 and they look eerily real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humanoid-robots-are-waking-up-and-they-look-eerily-real2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engineered Arts, a robotics firm located in the United Kingdom, released a video showing a humanoid robot that looks exceptionally lifelike \u2014 and suddenly the science fiction movie<em> <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbr.com\/will-smith-i-robot-trends-ameca-humanoid-bot-twitter-panicking\/?utm_content=buffer9a42f&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_source=CBR-TW&utm_campaign=CBR-TW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>I, Robot<\/em> is trending<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company named their robot Ameca, but Ameca\u2019s hyper-realistic expressions and motions look eerily like Sonny, the fictional android (played by actor Alan Tudyk) who co-starred with Will Smith in the film. It may be a coincidence, or it\u2019s one more example of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/culture\/jeff-bezos-star-trek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">science fiction inspiring real life tech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the Engineered Arts video, the grey-faced humanoid robot wakes up, makes a surprised expression, and then examines its own hands as if it also can\u2019t believe how real it looks. The company calls Ameca \u201cthe world\u2019s most sophisticated human-shaped robot\u201d \u2014 which may be self-promoting, but perhaps not underserved, based on that video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engineered Arts, a robotics firm located in the United Kingdom, released a video showing a humanoid robot that looks exceptionally lifelike \u2014 and suddenly the science fiction movie I, Robot is trending. The company named their robot Ameca, but Ameca\u2019s hyper-realistic expressions and motions look eerily like Sonny, the fictional android (played by actor Alan [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}