Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robots. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Disney adds Donald Trump to the "Hall of President" and it is just as bizarrely creepy as everything else about his presidency.

I like how Abraham Lincoln seems to be thinking "Now there is somebody needs to take in a play at the Ford's Theatre."

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

And you thought the real version was scary. 

On Tuesday, Disney World will unveil an animatronic version of the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. The robot Trump will stand next to other American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, and George Washington, who introduces Trump, as part of the Mouse House’s Hall of Presidents attraction. 

The Disney-centric website WDWMagic posted a video on Monday of robot Trump’s Disney speech, wherein he says: 

“From the beginning, America has been a nation defined by its people. At our founding, it was the American people who rose up to defend our freedoms and win our independence. It was why our Founders began our great Constitution with three very simple words: We the people. Since that moment, each generation of Americans has taken its place in the defense of our freedom, our flag, and our nation under God.

“These are the achievements of the American spirit—the spirit of a people who fought and died to bring the blessings of liberty to all our people. Above all, to be an American is to be an optimist, to believe that we can always do better and that the best days of our great nation are still ahead of us. It’s a privilege to serve as the president of the United States, to stand here among so many great leaders of our past, and to work on behalf of the American people.”

There is actually video of animatronic Trump saying those words, and even when spoken by a robot they sound like bullshit.

There are some on the internet claiming that Trump's robot doppelganger looks more like Jon Voight than the stubby fingered vulgarian, but I like the theory that Disney actually thought that somebody else was going to win that 2018 election and started to craft a robot of her before suddenly being forced to modify it to look more Trumpian.

I mean look at those eyes. They look decidedly Clintonian to me.

Personally I don't know why they even had to add Trump to this exhibit.

I mean don't they already have one Haunted Mansion?

Thursday, April 30, 2015

New human like robot is already creepy, but it also looks alarmingly like Sarah Palin. So you know, even more creepy.

Courtesy of The Daily Mail:

A humanoid robot named Yangyang is the latest to be revealed in China. 

Dressed in a full-length coat, the android can display a wide range of facial expressions and can speak, move its head, and raise its hands to greet people convincingly. 

And the machine bears an uncanny - yet apparently accidental - resemblance to former Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. 

So the Japanese have made an emotionless humanoid like creature that looks vaguely like Sarah Palin.

Which is kind of ironic since today Sarah Palin appears to be an emotionless humanoid creature that looks vaguely like Sarah Palin.

Yeah, I'll take the robot.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

They can do such amazing things with animatronics these days.



As I was watching this I could not help but think I had seen it someplace before.

And then I remembered.