Eve Herold

That's got, you know, it's electrically controlled and it's got, you know, wiring that in certain ways simulates, you know, human musculature.

And so the eyes blink, the eyes dart back and forth, the mouth moves, the eyebrows move.

The materials are just becoming so much more lifelike, you know, and there's all kinds of materials now that just embodies of robots that make them flexible and soft as opposed to hard metal.

Now, you know, don't get me wrong.

There's plenty of

you know, plastic and metal robots out there, and they're on the market now.

One of them is called Pepper.

Pepper can teach, entertain, and watch over children.

It can run programs that are designed to help children with autism.

It can do all kinds of different kinds of therapy.

It can do cognitive behavioral therapy for people who have

you know, kind of the crabgrass of mental illnesses, you know, anxiety and depression, things like that.

So, you know, you put these programs together with flexible, movable, animated materials, and it really creates an illusion.

Yeah, it's kind of the latter thing.

You know, yes, they do amazing things.

And really, you know, I'm amazed.

I mean, you can –

Disabled people will be, you know, the big winners here, elderly people, children.

But the problem comes in with the fact that they're connected to the Internet.

You know, scientists at MIT not so long ago created a robot that they claim became psychotic because of material that it found on the dark web.