Amazing reaction of a robot with a lifelike expression

Ameca robot's reaction when touched in "private space"

A machine touted as the world's most advanced humanoid robot has "paniced" its creators, after the robot reacted with obvious discomfort and grabbed an invasive researcher's hand. violate its "private space".

A newly posted video shows the robot, called "Ameca", observing a moving finger, then frowning and leaning back as the finger approaches. After the researcher touched the robot's nose, it grabbed the person's hand and brushed it away.

According to RT , the Ameca robot is amazingly human-like. The robot, developed by British company Engineered Arts, is billed as the "future face of robotics" and the "perfect humanoid robot platform for human-robot interaction".

Ameca was created with the same physical characteristics as the character in the 2004 TV series "I, Robot". Engineers plan to add many more features and promise that one day Ameca can walk.

Before that, a close-up video showed Ameca with different facial expressions from curiosity, surprise to joy. In the video, the pre-programmed robot wakes up and begins to wonder about its appearance, then is surprised to find it's being "filmed" and then smiling.

Ameca is said to have full human emotions, along with realistic human-like facial and eye movements.

Sharing the video on YouTube, the Cornwall-based robotics company says Ameca will react when a foreign object enters its "private space". The developers say that the robot's actions surprised them at first, and they got used to it.

While most viewers of the video appreciated the robot, some watched in a state of "both excitement and fear". One Twitter account commented that the interaction between robots and real people is an "early warning" of the dangers posed by technology.

The robot was built to buy and rent, but for now it's just a stationary model. Developers are working to upgrade the robot to use the company's Mesmer technology to mimic human emotions and expressions, as well as bone structure and skin texture. The developers say that in the future they can upgrade the Ameca robot so that it can "walk".