If you enjoy robotic heads (as I do), you'll like the following video of a new robotic head created by KIST’s Center for Intelligent Robotics.
(Korean Talking Robotic Heads)
Not much information is available, but it appears to be a prototype used to explore how people can learn from robots in a school environment.
Science fiction writer William Gibson wrote about an elaborate mechanical talking head that served as an output terminal in his 1984 novel Neuromancer, :
…a head, an intricately worked bust, cloisonné over platinum, studded with seed pearls and lapis. ..The thing was a computer terminal…it could talk.
(Read more about about William Gibson's talking head)
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