This just in from the “sort of awesome, sort of creepy” department: Disney is cloning human faces in order to create more realistic robots.
Can the day where a self-aware Skynet sends a realistic looking Yul Brynner robot from Westworld to lead the robot uprising be far behind? Technology-based paranoia aside, this is actually pretty cool. Disney’s Zurich-based Research Department developed a way to clone faces so that the animatronic characters at the park would appear more lifelike.
To achieve that goal, they developed a process called “Physical Face Cloning” (imaginative, right?) that takes a 3D scan of a human face in various expressions. The multiple expressions allow the computers to come up with a composite image of the face in an...
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