Do I Go To Work Today? Or Do I Send In My Robot Clone?

They're called Geminoids, which means 'robot twins'. You basically robot clone yourself, and your physical avatar will repeat your facial & body gestures and movements, even when you and your 'clone' are in different locations :



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Geminoids are basically remote-controlled slave robots powered by a quiet air servo system. They mimic the facial expressions, lip movements, and body motions of a human user through motion-tracking gear and an Internet link. As the vid below shows, Professor Scharfe's clone is already quite lifelike. So when it starts projecting his voice and mimicking his idiosyncrasies, students may freak a bit.

No doubt the professor's students are already more than a little freaked.

One day, probably sooner than most thought, Professor Scharfe will be able to send his geminoid to lecture at the uni, while he talks, grimaces and walks around his home, all of his words, movements captured and sent over the internet to his remote 'twin' who repeats everything he says and does.