Telenoid, a child-size telepresence robot by Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, which was developed to be neither male or female and neither young nor old, certainly gets a high mark on the creepiness scale.

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Osaka University’s Intelligent Robotics Laboratory is directed by Hiroshi Ishiguro. Their mission is to develop technologies for the new generation information infrastructures based on Computer Vision, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.
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