Creepy robotic head is like Ash from the movie ‘Alien’

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Could this be the future of robotics ? Image Credit: YouTube / Engineered Arts

This super-realistic robotic head is capable of exhibiting a wide range of human emotions.The latest creation of British robotics company Engineered Arts, this unnerving facsimile of a human male achieves what is often referred to as ‘uncanny valley’ given that it looks eerily close to being a real human but it is possible to tell that something isn’t quite right about it.

Named Adrian and described as a ‘mesmer robot head’, this fascinating contraption is shown ‘waking up’ in a new video before pulling a range of facial expressions.

Its realism is helped along by incredibly lifelike skin which even features stubble and eyebrows.

According to the video’s caption, the robot has 22 custom servo actuators of which only 5 are in the mouth, hence why this particular test model is not capable of effective lip syncing.

“Each Mesmer robot is designed and built from 3D in-house scans of real people, allowing us to imitate human bone structure, skin texture and expressions convincingly,” the company wrote.

While it’s currently unclear how this technology is likely to be used in the real world, Adrian offers a tantalizing glimpse at a future in which we might live and work alongside highly realistic robots.

Let us hope, however, that such a future doesn’t turn into an episode of Black Mirror.

Without a doubt humans are on the path to cyborgism. Robots and humans will merge. I’m referring to hundreds of years in the future.

Scene from the movie “Alien.”

Mind Boggling Bouncing Juggling

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From Around The World

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A box to dispose of your cannabis in the Chicago airport

Old photo of our farm.

Astypalaia, Greece

Winter storm in New York City (photo: Marzenka)

Stunning photos taken 384,000 kilometers from the Moon…

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Red Hawk in the Badlands of North Dakota (c. 1905)

Sunset at the Ben Franklin Bridge

Vintage view of the Statue of Liberty, taken from the torch balcony-which has been closed since 1916

San Francisco Bay

Creative Combination

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Tornado Shelters

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Tornado safety measures. If you own a house and you are in the house. The ideas below could really help.

A storm shelter or storm cellar is a type of underground bunker designed to protect the occupants from violent severe weather, particularly tornadoes. They are most frequently seen in the Midwest (“Tornado Alley”) and Southeastern United States (“Dixie Alley”) where tornadoes are generally frequent and the low water table permits underground structures.

The most common tornado shelters have steep stairs, making them inaccessible to people with ambulatory disabilities. The base model, found in some backyards in Oklahoma, is an underground concrete box, like this one.

The Resemblance of These Two is Uncanny

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Baby Yoda and the coach of the Vancouver Canucks Bruce Boudreau of the National Hockey League.

Man in Clown Mask Attempts to Steal Jet to Fly to Area 51 to See Aliens

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McCarran International Airport above

A Las Vegas man is in considerable legal trouble following a wild incident wherein he breached an airport’s security perimeter by way of a limousine and then donned a clown mask while attempting to commandeer a jet for a trip to Area 51 to see aliens. The multilayered misadventure reportedly unfolded last Wednesday evening when Matthew Hancock allegedly drove a limo through two metal fences surrounding the city’s McCarran International Airport. After pulling up alongside a jet on the tarmac, authorities say the man stepped out of his vehicle, put on a clown mask, and informed workers at the aircraft that he intended to “blow this place up” with a bomb.

According to police, Hancock then inexplicably got back inside the limousine and began to drive away, while the understandably alarmed airport personnel fled the scene. Fortunately, there was no standoff nor any altercation when cops caught up with the vehicle as the man is said to have surrendered immediately. It was then that things took an even stranger turn when Hancock reportedly revealed to police his reasoning for the brazen event. After telling them that there was a bomb in his vehicle, the man explained that he wanted to steal a jet and then somehow use it to journey to Area 51 “to look at aliens.”

Cops subsequently searched Hancock’s limousine and found a crude-looking fake bomb made out of what appeared to be an oxygen tank, a fire extinguisher, and various metal objects all strung together with Christmas lights. As one might imagine, the man was promptly arrested and has been charged with multiple crimes including threatening an act of terrorism. In an appropriately bizarre coda to this entire tale, since being taken into custody it has been alleged that Hancock phoned a well-known Las Vegas attorney approximately eight times on the day of the incident. During the calls, he is said to have dubbed himself “the chosen one” and claimed that he had put some kind of bomb in the lawyer’s car.

The Space Aliens at Area 51 may be dead!

Superheroes in the 16th Century

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The twin-aisle Boeing 777 compared to the smaller and more common single-aisle Boeing 737

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Historic Photographer of the Year Awards 2021 winners revealed

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Steve Liddiard has been named overall winner of the Historic Photographer of the Year Awards 2021, for his photo of the Whiteford Point Lighthouse in the Gower Peninsula, Wales.

Whiteford Point Lighthouse in the Gower Peninsula, south Wales

“The lighthouse was built in 1865 to a design by John Bowen, of Llanelli, to mark the shoals of Whiteford Point, replacing an earlier piled structure of 1854, of which nothing remains,” explains Mr Liddiard.

“It is the only wave-swept cast iron tower of this size in Britain.”

Entries to the competition were judged on originality, composition and technical proficiency alongside the story behind the submission and its historical impact.

“The awards demonstrate the huge dedication that entrants often go to when trying to capture that perfect shot, whether rising in the dead of night to capture the perfect sunrise or climbing, hiking and trekking their way to discover far-flung places from our past,” said broadcaster and historian Dan Snow, who was a competition judge.

The Historic England category was won by Sam Binding’s view of the famous Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol during a misty sunrise (below).

Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol on a misty morning

“I regularly take my dog for a walk at sunrise in Bristol,” said Mr Binding.

“The bridge acts as a gateway to the city, and mist adds a magic quality to an already stunning scene.”

The Where History Happened category went to Iain McCallum for his drone picture of the shipwrecks of the Wastdale H and Arkendale H, which tragically collided in the River Severn in October 1960 (below).