5 Creepiest Robots Out Right Now

Robots: we’re getting to a stage where they’re becoming ever more life like and yet paradoxically they’re also becoming ever more freaky and inhuman. We must be in some transitional phase right now in regards to robot aesthetics. We need to break through into the gleaming sanitized world where the worst they look is like ASIMO. Not these raven-eyed monstrosities that appear like the nightmare armies of a thousand child memories of haunted doll houses. Anyway, here’s our round up. Robot aficionados view at your own risk.

HRP-4C

A female robot that sings, nothing wrong with that you might say. And she doesn’t look too bad, sort of cute for a robot. But then she starts singing and it just looks all wrong.

Humanoid Robot Mouth

OK, so this isn’t a whole robot, but still. Not only has this got the whole frightening automaton thing going on, it’s disembodied as well. Just looking at that strange mouth yapping away with the metallic voice straining to get out, it’s a new level of horror. Rather a world without sound than this moaning abomination.

The Telenoid R1

A robot with stumps for arms and no legs that shivers and spasms like a repulsive ill-formed human seal. If this is our projected mechanical alter-ego then we’re in trouble. It’s from the disturbed mind of Hiroshi Ishiguro, a man who once built his robot twin, who’s like the uncrowned Dr Frankenstein king of terrifying mechanoids. The weirdest thing about the Telenoid R1 is it’s supposed to be used for communication.

Miyata Jiro

Argh! it’s crawling along the ground. Could it get any more hideous? It’s like a half dead robot doing that coming-to-crush-your-skull-crawl like at the end of Terminator, only this deadly cyborg assassin from the future wears a business suit and a comb over. Thankfully it’s just a performance piece by artist Momoyo Torimitsu.

CB2

Or as it’s more commonly know, creepy robot child. It’s designed to mimic a toddler and scare the crap out of people. Something that makes you want to flee in abject terror doesn’t really inspire the most paternal instincts.