Face Massage Robot - Neatorama

Japanese scientists had just unveiled this robot which purpose is ... to massage your face!

Equipped with two 50-cm (20-inch) arms that protrude from a chair-sized aluminum box, WAO-1 performs massages by pressing the patient’s face from both sides. Each arm’s position and angle can be precisely controlled, as can the direction of the pressure applied to the face. WAO-1 also relies on a complex system of software and fuses to ensure the pressure does not exceed a certain level, and it is equipped with a “torque limiter function” that allows the arms to bend back should the robot begin to exert too much force.

Torque limiter function. Complex system of software. Squeezed in the face by robots. Suuuuure - but you go first! Link - via jwz

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I had the same thought as William. It's like a bad science fiction movie. The first step to robots taking over the world? Crushing all the faces of women who were unwise enough to strap themselves into this contraption!

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My thoughts exactly William! No way am I letting a machine do that to my face. One forceful malfunction and bam! missing teeth.

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Uhhh...this same picture was used somewhere like a week or two ago talking about a robotic girl.

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If the machine malfunctions and begins to crush full force...just my first thoughts haha

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omigosh it totally looks like Mike Wazowski from Monsters Inc.

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Perhaps this Cyclops Baby Shark has nothing to do with radiation or perhaps it does. That's not up to me to figure out but what concerns me, is that everyone (Media outlets and by default people) have all but forgotten about the fact that Fukishima Daichi continues to spew radiation into water, air and soil, with no end in sight.

Look forward to more abnormalities world. This could just be the tip of the iceberg.

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Oh Photoshop. Is there no end to your entertainment?!

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Totally fake. That isn't a shark eye, that is a human eye. Shark eyes don't have whites.

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Agree that it looks fake.

Pepina: There's no reason to assume this has anything to do with radiation from the power plant. Mutations happen like this all the time, and have for millions upon millions of years. It's the basis for evolution.

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Maybe it's a shark egg. Eggs have whites.

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That isn't a shark. It's a dolphin. And as others have said, the human or other mammalian eye is Photoshopped in. They didn't bother to remove the visible eye slit which is right where it should be.

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I call no way! Here is a closeup of a bull-shark eye:

http://www.knuthart.com/joshua/blog/?p=31

It has a slitted iris, not a round one.

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It's not photoshopped, it's realitychopped. Looks like a glass eye popped into the snout of a beluga (?) baby. Sell it to the tourists.

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If it was developing an improperly-formed skull, why couldn't the eye be improperly-formed and thus unusual looking as well? Even if the eye in the picture was a glass eye or otherwise fake, I'd be willing to bet this is a real shark fetus with cyclopia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopia

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I think the 4-handed man that's holding it is more interesting.

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Do you remember the Cyclops Kitten? Many people said it was a fake because "kittens are not born with their eyes open." But it was real.

http://www.misscellania.com/miss-cellania/2006/1/14/cyclops-kitten.html

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If this isn't already a SyFy original movie, it will be soon.

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Looks like the radioactive fish from The Simpsons.
But I'm calling BS on this one too. Looks too ridiculous.

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it would be a great find it real but looks like a bunch of bs

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