This unfortunately can not be unseen once you have laid your eyes on it. The image above comes from the November 2009 edition of Kokoro News. It shows Dr. Javier Movellan and the robot “Diego-San” from the Machine Perception Laboratory at UCSD.

It’s a baby… It has a giant head… Please make it go away.

Apparently the robot is supposed to model a 1 year old baby so they can conduct research on how a baby’s brain develops. The face has roughly 20 moving parts allowing it to communicate with facial expressions alone. God help us all, it can even stand up from a chair on its own and can hold a water bottle. Stop this monstrosity before it starts teething!

[BJ]

The Yotaro baby simulator is used to teach parents about childcare and parenting. It may just scare you into never having kids ever. The interactive screen doubles as a face that you will see in your nightmares.

It comes from the demented minds of the University of Tsukuba in Japan and will display a variety of facial expressions and movements that babies make.

[designboom]

The Han Cholo Baby Cylon Ring w/ Stone (Gold) will cost you a whopping $232.00. The Cylon eye is the stone. I’m assuming that when it catches the light, it’s supposed to give the effect of movement. But for $232.00, I want a Cylon ring with a moving LED eye.

But if you want a fancy gold Cylon ring on your finger and you have some money burning a hole in your pocket, you can find it on Amazon.

[Amazon]

Clara is a creepy little robot baby with a duct tape diaper on her midsection instead of her ass, and a hankering to play the theremin. Clara was created by Sarah Angliss, a musician and sound artist. And Clara will be in my nightmares henceforth, terrifying me with her creepiness and occasionally shitting herself, while providing her own otherworldly theremin soundtrack.

This music video looks like it was shot in the 60’s and I believe it may be some kind of cult propaganda. The damn baby keeps making weird sounds and waving a kitchen whisk everywhere.

[Robot Living]

Nothing sadder than an unwanted child. It’s somehow even sadder to see a robot fetus with no mother around. It’s an old story: Robot gal gets knocked up by some fancy washing machine she was riding like a rodeo bull in the Texas summer, finds herself ill equipped to care for her spawn, so disconnects it’s growth circuit and puts it in a jar for posterity. Sad.

[Nerdcore]

Ron Tajima is the guy who invented playing Pac-Man with the Roomba! Check out the Pacmba below. Well, now Ron Tajima has become a dad. So his newest Roomba project involved his son.
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Cam-Babies are pretty lame. They walk when you clap, fall and cry. Other then that they wink, move their heads, and make noise. That’s about it. But they do have a great robo-baby look. If you’re into that kind of thing.

[Akihabara]

The U.S. military’s increasing reliance on robot drones makes people think that babies might become warriors like in the classic Sci-Fi novel Ender’s Game. They may have something there…

[Danger Room]

Starting in 2009 this automated baby stroller from 4Moms can be yours. We’re not sure, but it may be a plot from Terminators in the future to nab John Connor in his infancy. Check out the video below to see it’s autonomous collapsing trick. It’s anybodies guess what happens when an unsuspecting mother hits the collapse button. It probably has a safety feature. Unless I’m right about Skynet getting into the stroller business. In that case it’s a baby compactor.

On a practical note, it’s powered by a rechargeable generator. It gets more power with every 300 feet of movement. It’s also environmentally friendly, with the plastic being from 90% of recycled materials. It will cost you $650 and a very cranky baby if things go wrong.
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