Ghost In The Shell?

Repliee Q1 (at left in both pictures) appeared yesterday at the 2005 World Expo in Japan, where she gestured, blinked, spoke, and even appeared to breathe. Shown with co-creator Hiroshi Ishiguru of Osaka University, the android is partially covered in skinlike silicone. Q1 is powered by a nearby air compressor, and has 31 points of articulation in its upper body. Internal sensors allow the android to react "naturally." It can block an attempted slap, for example. But it's the little, "unconscious" movements that give the robot its eerie verisimilitude: the slight flutter of the eyelids, the subtle rising and falling of the chest, the constant, nearly imperceptible shifting so familiar to humans... ..."When a robot looks too much like the real thing, it's creepy," Hiroshi told the Associated Press. The future is here. I knew it. They gonna do it one day. An actual robot that breathes, talk and move like a real human does. (Well, not exactly, but you know what I mean.) Just so that we can wax lyrical all day long about the philosophy of the existential theories of the soul, Ghost In The Shell style.