July 21st, 2006
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Hiroshi Ishiguro created another robot but this time, his latest creation looks exactly like him when he’s angry. “Geminoid HI-1″ is the name of his robot but it would have been more fun if he named it “My Evil Twin” and use it as a scapegoat when he’s in trouble.
Geminoid blinks, fidgets, moves its foot [...]
June 16th, 2006
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Charles Darwin already got the goat of his contemporaries for being brazen enough to declare that humans descended from chimps [his nasty Victorian enemies probably chided him with, "Did you get that idea, Charles, when you looked in the mirror?"]. But maybe Japanese scientist Tetsuro Matsuzawa is in a lot more uncomfortable situation: he’s telling [...]