In their push to perfectly impersonate human behavior, The Robots have now attained perfect skin, hair and teeth and have mastered the art of witty banter right before a commercial. From The Economic Times For the first time, a Chinese news channel has employed an artificial intelligence robot as a weather reporter on its live breakfast show, raising concerns among the country’s journalists as it could threaten their jobs.  More

Will Knight writes in MIT Technology Review about how The Robots are learning to perfectly impersonate human movements so they can take any human identity. “As this video shows, a humanoid robot can learn to get up from any position on the ground and stand on two legs in a very natural-looking way; … The same process works no matter what form the robot takes …”  More