celticpyro:

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cakeu:

anyone else upset that they’re trying to give robots ugly, uncanny valley human faces instead of daft punk heads or tv heads

When trying to make an expressive robot head, this:

or this:

Looks good.

This:

is also perfectly acceptable.

However this:

is the stuff of nightmares.

You’re never going to make it look human, stop trying. Make it look obviously inhuman in a way that looks good instead of diving further and further into the crevasse of Things That Should Not Be.

same thing with prosthetics TBH, this shit looks simply bad and pitiful 

This however looks cool and enhanced, I think way fewer people would look at this with pity

I once spoke to a girl with a prosthetic who was pretty excited about the new possibilities, she said people always see her as a broken human, as someone who is not complete, while she sees herself as a fully functional cyborg, and I found it quiet powerful. 

Yeah, I recall the tale of a pair of servicemen, a man and woman who lost opposite arms. They gave them these very functional prototype prosthetics that use peroxide steam to work, but the artificial skin was hideous. They both independently stopped putting the skin on the arm and were happy to just glue pads to the fingers to grip with and walk around with a Terminator looking skeletal metal arm.

Gosh damn, that leg is absolutely gorgeous!

The key to good prosthetics is to embrace that they aren’t a real arm/leg but still perfectly good and useful instead of trying to make it a cheap imitation of a human limb.