Uncanny Valley! Watch as a creepy humanoid robot mimics a researcher's facial expressions in real time - with eerie precision

If we want to live in a world where we interact with robots, they'll have to be able to read and respond to our facial expressions in lightning-fast time. Now, scientists have come a step closer to creating such an advanced machine. 'Emo', built by experts at Columbia University in New York, is the fastest humanoid in the world when it comes to mimicking a person's expressions. In fact, it can'predict' a person's smile by looking for subtle signs in their facial muscles and imitate them so that they're effectively smiling at the same time. Amazing video shows the bot copying a researcher's facial expressions in real time with eerie precision and remarkable speed, thanks to cameras in its eyes. Columbia engineers build Emo, a silicon-clad robotic face that makes eye contact and can anticipate and replicate a person's smile at effectively the same time British-made Ameca is described as the'world's most advanced humanoid robot' Emo is the creation of researchers at Columbia University's Creative Machines Lab in New York, who present their work in a new study in Scientific Reports.