A visit to the human factory - The Verge

Engineered Arts in the UK is a small company, but it makes the world’s uncanniest robots: machines with realistic facial expressions that make you wonder what it means it be human. Its latest model, Ameca, provokes fear and excitement in equal measure, but wh…

Will Jackson, CEO of robotics company Engineered Arts, says he isnt sure whats worse: the angry emails that accuse him of building machines that will one day overthrow humanity or the speculative one… [+17810 chars]

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