Robotic Lincoln expresses emotions with creepy precision
Aug 13, 2017, 1:50 PM
An animatronic robot head of Abraham Lincoln can express plenty of emotions and it does so with creepy precision.
The video from Garner Holt Productions gives a description as to what exactly we are seeing:
Garner Holt Productions, Inc.’s (GHP) Abraham Lincoln expressive animatronic figure is the most advanced humanoid robotic head ever created. The figure utilizes theme park quality construction to accomplish incredible special effects movement in a robotic or animatronic human platform.
The demonstration was done at the D23 Expo in July as well as Comic-Co, according to a post from the company’s founder.
As the video shows, the head uses incredible movement on his face, from the eyes, eyebrows, mouth and more. The video ends with Lincoln looking rather normal in his dialogue, but one can’t help but be creeped out at his “shocked” face with his eyeballs bulging.
The head is part of the company’s Expressive Head Project, which has the goal of adding “realistic facial expression to animatronics in order to add an extra dimension of lifelike movement.”
From what we see in the video, mission accomplished.
