Sentences with phrase «humanoid faces»

Star Wars and Star Trek share a common flaw in their creature designs: as weird as the bodies and skins can get, the aliens of both galaxies usually have humanoid faces — two eyes, a nose, a mouth.

Bryce Huebner, an experimental philosopher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has found his human subjects are willing to accept the possibility that machines have «beliefs» and even feel pain, but only if those machines have a humanoid face.

In social tasks — playing a game or conversing — both age groups preferred a humanoid face.

The humanoid face smiles in anticipation of a bright future and has eyes represented by a battery circuit symbol (denoting «charge») and a curve line, or mouth, representing «move.»

Not exact matches

Robots can easily come off as either creepy or goofy, but Baxter strikes a pleasant enough balance between the humanoid and the machine, with a head consisting of a computer screen displaying a line drawing of a face.

Pepper, the humanoid robot from SoftBank, goes much further: It analyzes your face and your tone of voice to understand what you say, then respond in an emotionally appropriate way.

I would like to suggest a few follow - up experiments that might shed more light on the «uncanny valley» — the feeling of unease when faced with a humanoid robot (12 January, p 35).

Eager to break the so - called 10 - hour barrier, Fumihide Tanaka, a robotics researcher at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and colleagues tested the Sony QRIO, a state - of - the - art humanoid robot that can recognize faces and respond to touch.

The scientists think this could be useful for a number of applications that need muscle fibers, whether getting the faces of humanoid robots to move with more human - like expressions or getting prosthetic limbs better muscle.

Will it really be too soon before white chrome humanoids with latex faces and dead eyes will become a threat to the existence of the human race?

It's a movie about a humanoid turtle named after an artist of the Italian Renaissance punching a giant brain in the face.

Indeed, Caleb's uber - rich, genius boss, Nathan (played by Oscar Isaac, in what may be the best performance of the year to date), did design a humanoid robot with all of the traits that Caleb most desires through the secret collection of data from Caleb's computers, cell phones, etc. (there was a special emphasis put upon Caleb's «porn profile» when it came to designing the robot, Ava's, face).

You're dumped on a version of Earth that has been terraformed where there's now seven different alien races running around alongside humans and a load of dangerous wildlife attempting to murder you in the face, though to be fair most of the humanoids are also trying to murder you in your face.

[2] They appear as humanoids, wearing wraps around most of their body, with the exception of their face.

Its a dirty humanoid with round, engorged hands and an elongated face that ends in the most disgusting and surprisingly vaginal mouth I have ever seen.

In this mind - twitching alternative virtual reality, the artist aims to show «architectural monuments» of some alien civilization and are populated with contorted humanoid figures and bat - faced aliens.»

The hand - drawn images of Johnson reflect a formative interest in 1980's science fiction, horror movies, video games and comic books, creating environments of ancient yet futuristic alien civilization populated by mystic characters like bat - faced demigods, gargoyles, worms and genderless pink humanoids that are contorted into ritualistic positions that waver between torture, rapture and worship.

Populating her world are bat - faced demigods, gargoyles, ever - present worms and genderless pink humanoids stripped of identifying characteristics; their bodies contorted into ritualistic positions that waver between torture, rapture and worship.

Alphabet's YouTube division, which has also faced criticism for allowing violent and offensive content to thrive on its platform, is ramping up its humanoid workforce too, with plans to hire more than 10,000 people this year.

Ever since Siri appeared as a regular feature on the iPhone, certain young children — and, let's face it, some of their parents — have spent hours chatting up the virtual assistant, curious about the details of her humanoid back story.

Dancing flames are somewhat humanoid in shape, having two arms, two legs, and a round body with a slight lump at the top to help put a head to their phantasmal face.