Just when you thought you’d seen everything, Hollywood incorporating living, breathing planks of wood into most everything that they do, technology can go and surprise you? Are you ready? Are you ready for acting robots?
We’re not talking about Orlando Bloom, Robert Pattinson, or Natalie Portman. No. Not Keanu Reeves, Sly Stallone, or Megan Fox. We’re talking about an actual acting robot. I don’t know how I feel about acting robots. It makes the robot uprising that much more based off of good diction and literary metaphor. Which frightens me. Imagine, if when the robots kill us all, they all are reciting monologues from The Glass Menagerie or other Tennessee Williams selections. If, instead of killing us all, they all have to wait around until a robot casting director gives them the go-ahead. If they spend a lot of time worrying about their careers and not as much time implementing things that’ll help them, such as cooking and finance lessons.
What follows is the most terrifying video I’ve ever witnessed. Seriously, terrifying. A robot talks and tries emoting, and winds up being just, weird and creepy. It’s like a sociopath robot. It’s a Dexter robot. And it’s coming for you.
It’s name is RoboThespian. It was made by Engineering Arts. He translates scripts into languages, and is powered by compressed air.
And you will remember him well, for he will be your emoting overlord.
(Image via gearcrave.com)
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