Humanoid robots now have expressive faces and soft skin
Scientists hope they will one day care for the elderly. They already deal cards, operate as hotel receptionists are help train dental students.
Nadine is a new brand of human-like robot that reacts to the presence of people. She has brown hair, soft skin and an expressive face.Edgar Su/Reuters
A humanoid robot makes a facial expression depicting "fear", next to the word "Bomb" at Kawasaki’s Meiji University's.Yuriko Nakao/Reuters
Robot Kanae is pictured at a welcome desk at the International Tourism Fair ITB in Berlin.Tobias Schwarz/AFP / Getty Images
A Tokyo dentist operates on a humanoid dental patient robot at Showa University.Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images
A woman walks by a Japanese-made robot receptionist named Ms. Saya at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.Gil Cohen Magen/Reuters
Peter Harmsen Jerry Lin, professor at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, adjusts his robots in Taipei.Sam Yeh/AFP / Getty Images
A humanoid robot stands at the reception desk of Henn na Hotel in Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.Akio Kon/Bloomberg
Min, a prototype human-like electronic croupier, deals a card at Paradise Entertainment Ltd. in Macau, China.David Paul Morris
Brampton, Ontario inventor Le Trung created his android Aiko which can feel pressure, speak and recognize faces among other things.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail
A customer takes a photograph of a humanoid robot developed by Toshiba Corp. inside a Tokyo department store.Akio Kon/Bloomberg