Lifelike robots: Cool or creepy?

David Hanson, originally an artist working in Disney's Imagineering Lab, created his own skin-like material called Frubber. He has now created robots that have a human-like head, made of this Frubber, which look VERY realistic. Neck-down however, it is just another robot, no more advanced than a decade ago. He wants to create converation-making robots, not really "useful" robots. However, it is still pretty creepy, I think.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/11/23/robots.tooreal.ap/index.html