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The first video has been released of Diego-san, a robot with the hardware and software to copy the learning behavior of a one-year-old human child. "Diego-san was developed to approximate the complexity of a human body, including the use of actuators that have similar dynamics to that of human muscles," its creator Dr. Javier …

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  1. frank ly

    Even more creepy .....

    .... is that it's walking around with the umbilical cord still attached.

  2. Neil Barnes Silver badge

    For some reason

    it reminds me of Steve Grand and Growing Up With Lucy

    1. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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      Re: For some reason

      "t reminds me of Steve Grand and Growing Up With Lucy"

      Always wondered what happened to that.

  3. MrT

    Growth hormone...

    ...kicked in early on that one - a one-year old mind in a body the size of an eight to ten-year old. Miniaturisation or OS upgrade needed... but at least if they went for the latter then reskinning the UI means something more literal than just adding a fancy clock or weather app.

  4. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Why am I having waking nightmares of these things....

    Industrial robots = unnerving and dangerous.

    Autonomous Android Robots = Mont Golfier Brothers, unmanned balloon landing in amongst the peasants, pitchforks, killing the devil.

    1. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
      Terminator

      Re: Why am I having waking nightmares of these things....

      Equip with appropriate ordinance to keep the plebs away!

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: "ordinance"

        You think this robot should be a priest?

  5. Haku

    I'm taking my pitchfork to the University of California, San Diego next week

    Who's with me?

    1. Francis Boyle Silver badge

      Re: I'm taking my pitchfork to the University of California, San Diego next week

      The Daleks?

      Is it April 1 already?

  6. ACx

    Give it a year of tabloid harassment, and it'll be in IACGMOOH by next year. Any you know what? It'll win.

  7. Don Jefe

    Pooping

    It looks like the only thing they managed to mimic was the face of a baby taking a big dump in its diaper.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The Uncanny Valley ...

    ... just turned into a vast gaping crevasse. With a giant monster baby in the middle of it. *shudders*

  9. boothamshaw

    Did they have to make it look so much like Robin Williams in "Bicentennial Man"?

  10. Eddy Ito

    So that's it

    I always wondered where they put Ming the Merciless' skull cap but they must have stretched it to fit that pate.

    1. Neil B
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      Re: So that's it

      Gah! Beat me to it. :)

  11. SteveCo
    Terminator

    The first ones had rubber skins

    We spotted them easily...

  12. rcorrect
    Mushroom

    In the year 2525...

    ~/. If man is still alive...

    If woman can survive...

    they may find... ~/.

    Just saying.

  13. Euripides Pants
    Terminator

    The second photo...

    ...lookes like a robo-Mini Me thats blocked up with cheese.

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