Scientists have created the first 'humanoid' robot that can mimic the facial expressions and lip movements of a human being.
'Jules' - a disembodied androgynous robotic head - is controlled only by his own software and automatically copies the movement and expressions of a human face.
Human face movements are picked up by a video camera and mapped onto the tiny electronic motors in Jules' skin.
It can grin and grimace, furrow its brow, and 'speak' as the software translates real expressions observed through video camera 'eyes'.
'Jules' then mimics the facial expressions of the human by converting the video image into digital commands that make the robot's servos and motors produce mirrored movements.
And it all happens in real time as Jules can interpret the commands at 25 frames per second.
The project, called 'Human-Robot Interaction', was devised at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory (BRL), run by the University of the West of England and the University of Bristol.
A team of robotics engineers - Chris Melhuish, Neill Campbell and Peter Jaeckel - spent three-and-a-half years developing the breakthrough software to create interaction between humans and artificial intelligence.
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damn thats kinda creepy, wonder when they create the pornstar version it can be inserted with a removable fleshlight
