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Meet Fred. Fred makes eye contact with you while he talks, recognizes people’s age and gender, and can even pick up on facial cues. He’s the one on the left—the robot. He’s a Mesmer, a type of super-realistic humanoid robot made by a company in the United Kingdom called Engineered Arts.
Unlike most robots, which perform simple and repetitive tasks, Mesmers are designed to be as expressive as possible. They can be operated like a puppet using animation software on a laptop from anywhere in the world.
Most of the robots Engineered Arts makes are used for entertainment purposes. They’re used at tourist attractions worldwide, such as Madame Tussauds wax museums and amusement parks.
Fred is based on a human actor. Before building the robot, Engineered Arts used 60 cameras to capture the actor’s face and 180 cameras to capture the actor’s body. Write a ratio in simplest form comparing the number of cameras used for the actor’s body to the cameras used for his face. Record your work and answer on our Numbers in the News answer sheet.
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