What the Hell is a Telenoid?

It is an armless, legless creature created by Osaka University and Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR). The Telenoids purpose is to communicate facial expressions of whoever their linked to over the internet, to old people in Japan. Having already created robot clones, and other androids created to portray actual people (with their Geminoid F and HI-1 respectively). Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro has done it again, creating a new portable tele-operated robot, that can effectively transfer a persons presence. This guy won't stop until we are all replaced by mechanical monsters from the darkest regions of human imagination. Telenoid users can interact with people at a distance through a computer, the system tracks the user's face and head motion and captures his/her voice. The motions and voice are relayed to Telenoid, which expresses them while interacting with some old person. It's meant to appear neither male nor female, young nor old. It has an "abbreviated" torso and arms, but can wiggle around to a limited extent while on its stand.Which makes it look like some weird sperm creature on a guitar stand. Osaka software firm Eager plans to start distributing Telenoid later this year priced around $35,000 for the research version and about $8,000 for a commercial version. What it really reminds me of is the creepy baby from Eraser Head.  

Geminoid; Meet your robot clone

Those darn Japanese are at it again! The Osaka University, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Dept. of Adaptive Machine Systems particularly Intelligent Robotics Laboratory under the helm of Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, have developed not only robots and androids but a new form of even more sentient cybernetic life the Geminoid "a tele-operated android identical in appearance to the principal investigator."  Frustrated by the limitation of conventional androids inability to communicate naturally as a human would, rather than talk to real people, the professor and his student team have created a machine that you can live vicariously through the internet! They have given the Geminoid sensitive skin that is equipped with sensors that allow the creature to actually feel. They gave it eyes and ears that are cable of turning sounds and images into fucking music! It's sensor network allows it to track human behavior and processes real world eents so that it can react more naturally like a real person. These Dr. Frankenstiens are making real-life terminators like they neve even saw the fucking movie!

 They Had been keeping their creations in the realm of "research", but in December they  began offering to create robot clones for the public starting at $225,000! So far it still needs a human to remote control it wearing this wierd head piece, but the thing is the person operating the Geminoid can be anywhere in the world!