Guess which one is the robot?

jay

#1 – 10:17 AM July 3, 2009

The robot's the mouthbreather with synthetic hair and eyelashes, duh.

4649

#2 – 10:23 AM July 3, 2009

If it's not the one on the left then I'm a monkey's uncle.

Aloisius

#3 – 10:30 AM July 3, 2009

If it's not the one on the left, then I'm #1's uncle.

therevengor

#4 – 10:41 AM July 3, 2009

Trick question!

The robot is you!

Clay

#5 – 11:01 AM July 3, 2009

The face on the left has a more unnatural expression, but the one on the right conforms more to the universal "make female humanoid robots cute" directive.

coop

#6 – 11:06 AM July 3, 2009

Left - Robot

Takashi Omoto

#7 – 11:10 AM July 3, 2009

Great work adding that huge zip on the robot in the left. Gives it the sort of verisimilitude one is unable to find in a female grad student.

HeatherB

#8 – 11:28 AM July 3, 2009

Left

Felix Mitchell

#9 – 11:32 AM July 3, 2009

The face on the left conforms to my stereotype that only Asians are making this creepy level of realistic robot face, undoubtably to tap into the possible adult market. Or retail.

Or I could talk about how it has plastic looking eyelids, synthetic eyelashes and hair. How the skin doesn't look human, especially around the eyes, nose and mouth. And there's something non-alive looking about the eye. t

NoahApples

#10 – 11:50 AM July 3, 2009

Ah, I see what they did there. Soon we'll all be fulfilling our fictional character-fixated romantic fantasies through the advent of robots.

They picked a good starting point there with Kaylee; should generate a lot of investment capital from wealthy, nerdy Firefly fans.

erzatsen

#11 – 12:28 PM July 3, 2009

"This picture looks photoshopped. I’ve seen a few ’shops in my day and i can tell because the pixels don’t match up."

lolbrandon

#12 – 1:08 PM July 3, 2009

The bot is on the left. Look at the eyes.

Mark Frauenfelder

#13 – 3:30 PM July 3, 2009

Can you change it to a contest about which one is cuter?

Anonymous Anonymous

#14 – 4:03 PM July 3, 2009

If the one on the right is a robot, I'm very excited for the future of robot technology.

technogeek

#15 – 5:03 PM July 3, 2009

Agree with the rest: droid on left. Translucency of skin, expression, gapped lips.

If I'm wrong, I'm impressed. But I don't think I'm wrong.

Nice sculpture. Whether they can make it move naturally is another question.

Hanglyman

#16 – 5:49 PM July 3, 2009

Left. Weird expression, oddly thick eyelashes, lips strangely open, glassy eyes, skin looks weird around the eyes and also doesn't have any kind of natural blemishes like the freckles the woman on the right has. It seems pretty obvious to me.

But if I'm wrong, um... sorry about all that stuff I just said about you, lady. :(

devophill

#17 – 8:00 PM July 3, 2009

It's the one who can hold her lips together.

Clay

#18 – 8:51 PM July 3, 2009

I just noticed a simple, objective difference that makes a good case for the artificiality of the leftmost face. Felix mentions the effect of it, and here's the cause:

Trace the line of sight from each of the faces' eyes. The woman on the right is looking straight at the eyes on the left, presumably unconsciously trying to make eye contact with the unseeing or perhaps CCD-based orbs. The eyes on the left are cast slightly downward, unlikely for a human with another face occupying most of their field of view.

If the left is human, she either has a visual impairment or is shy enough to avoid the unconscious draw of other eyes.

Aaron Gunn

#19 – 1:46 AM July 4, 2009

Left one is obviously the robot. Roboticists still haven't got the eyes right, which I'm sympathetic about because, come on, the eyes are hard to imitate.

kaiza

#20 – 8:19 AM July 4, 2009

@15 - actually many asians are brought up to avoid eye contact. Or she may be autistic, or the photo may have been taken at an inopportune time.

Whoops... "it" not "her"...
The one that gave it away for me was the fat lower eyelid. Also, I don't want to stereotype but how many middle-aged grad students are there?

tekpagan

#21 – 10:19 AM July 4, 2009

The one on the right.

dcamsam

#22 – 3:51 PM July 4, 2009

The right is the robot, because the left has a zit on her chin. They might make a robot with a freckles, but they wouldn't make one with a blemish.

Frank

#23 – 4:25 PM July 4, 2009

I say the answer to the trick question is... THEY ARE BOTH ROBOTS... Right is older version since it looks more like a robot

Wajih

#24 – 6:18 PM July 4, 2009

This goes back to the ancient belief and now proved fact that Asians are all in fact...Robots. WTF is Christian Science anyway..Does that invlove Jesus and space ships cause i'm all down for them apples.

bob5540

#25 – 7:53 PM July 4, 2009

The one on the left is the robot. Reasoning: The Japanese are the furthest along in robotics.

Giulio Sciorio

#26 – 8:23 PM July 4, 2009

Left is robot because it does what we make it do. Right is a robot because it does what religion tells it to do.

Ji

#27 – 8:26 PM July 4, 2009

Obviously the left one. Robot's skin should be flawless...

Ji

#28 – 8:32 PM July 4, 2009

It is actually a trick question, and the answer should be NEITHER!

The cover story will then continue to say: Everyone thinks that either Christianity or Science is right. In fact, they both are!

Anonymous Anonymous

#29 – 11:28 PM July 4, 2009

its the right, trick question

ilya

#30 – 11:51 PM July 4, 2009

So when do they start makin' out?vale arabia

MyGB

#31 – 12:37 AM July 5, 2009

It's right, because everybody says left ^^ (no, really, it's reverse psychology, so, we can think the right is a human and act as a robot... but).

And I found : http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0610_050610_robot.html :p .

navid

#32 – 12:50 AM July 5, 2009

100% right-Robot

AdmOd

#33 – 4:43 AM July 5, 2009

What if robot is right?

Hank

#34 – 5:50 AM July 5, 2009

the RIGHT... way younger the person on the left, if i were to create a robot, i would create a younger version instead of an older version of 'me'. then again, i am a robot too... so i am confused now...

AznoukRamdac

#35 – 7:26 AM July 5, 2009

I say the robot is the one on the right. Her nose is sharper and the skin on her face is firmer and has less wrinkles. In contrast the left one has a less sharp, more natural looking nose and her skin is wrinkled and not as firm. The left one also has dark area on the skin under her eyes that indicates she sleeps late and oversleeps a lot. I wouldn't build a robot and model it after a lazer - So that's probably a real human. XD

Kevin Xu

#36 – 8:25 AM July 5, 2009

The left is robot, I saw her eyes not shine as human eyes do, look at the right one. But I am impress, this creature almost same with real human.

Readmore

#37 – 10:52 AM July 5, 2009

It says "The other is a grad student." Just saying that it's probably safe to bet on the younger face.

ShopBucuresti

#38 – 11:12 AM July 5, 2009

Left one is obviously the robot. Roboticists still haven't got the eyes right, which I'm sympathetic about because, come on, the eyes are hard to imitate.
http://www.shop-bucuresti.ro/

Comenzi24h

#39 – 11:22 AM July 5, 2009

This goes back to the ancient belief and now proved fact that Asians are all in fact...Robots. WTF is Christian Science anyway..Does that invlove Jesus and space ships cause i'm all down for them apples.
http://www.comenzi24h.ro/

Dean Putney

#40 – 11:39 AM July 5, 2009

THERE IS NO ROBOT.

misterjuju

#41 – 12:53 PM July 5, 2009

ShopBucuresti & Comenzi24h are both robots because they just repeated what some earlier commenters said and then tacked on their spamlinks...am I right...what do I win?

Mark

#42 – 3:54 PM July 5, 2009

We'd probably need a Turing test to decide -- otherwise we're in Blade Runner territory (I know which one I'd retire -- the one on the left).

摇滚帮 ROCK BUNCH

#43 – 6:42 PM July 5, 2009

You can say the left is robot because she looks uglier...

Hamid

#44 – 8:06 PM July 5, 2009

I think the left one is the Robot.

stevew

#45 – 9:43 PM July 5, 2009

I'm with #14 Anonymous. If it is the right one, then I'm excited about the future of robotics. Hair is wrong on the robot on the left.

ViX

#46 – 10:10 PM July 5, 2009

i think its the one on the right.
the one on the left has a slight surprised expression.
the right one merely looks forward without any expression.

maral

#47 – 12:03 AM July 6, 2009

On the left,she has no feeling in her eyes. she isn't LOOKing to something....

A

#48 – 2:43 AM July 6, 2009

I would be more impressed by a video clip of the the two faces talking.

Arnold

#49 – 5:59 AM July 6, 2009

Left is the robot. The eyes aren't focused.

aaron

#50 – 8:41 AM July 6, 2009

they're both robots

Unsure

#51 – 8:42 AM July 6, 2009

The one on the right is too young to be a grad student in advanced robotics. Besides, someone who looks like that never sets a foot in an engineering class, unless she's a robot.

me

#52 – 9:50 AM July 6, 2009

I remember seeing this robot a few years ago. It's the one on the left. I think it's more of an animatronic(like Disney's Lincoln) than a robot though.

Torchwood

#53 – 12:38 PM July 6, 2009

Left. Winrar for spot the android!

seen one android you've seen em all!

T

Elfokel

#54 – 2:53 PM July 6, 2009

The one on the left is the Android Repliee Q2.

http://www.vaasapages.com/editorial/RobotsAndroids_files/image004.jpg

admin

#55 – 7:50 PM July 6, 2009

ok people its the one on the right...

darwyn4

#56 – 7:28 AM July 7, 2009

it's a rhetorical question, L-)

dculberson

#57 – 7:33 AM July 7, 2009

I can only hope that some people are confused about left versus right. Because one of these looks human and the other does not.

Alireza

#58 – 7:37 AM July 7, 2009

the right one is robot

Ahmad

#59 – 1:25 PM July 7, 2009

I guess the left one is robot

Halloween Jack

#60 – 1:33 PM July 7, 2009

What an incredibly easy question to answer... all you have to do is watch them both and see who blinks first.

[fifteen minutes later]

OK, they're both robots... damn, my eyes hurt.

elfaran

#61 – 10:55 PM July 7, 2009

ok, really, it's the one on the left. just do a little research - and guess where i found the answer... ;-)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0913/p06s04-wogn.html

zia rasi

#62 – 11:51 PM August 3, 2009

the left one is a robot!!!
it is so funny

Nibbles

#63 – 9:16 AM August 21, 2009

The one on the left is the robot. I've seen it in action on youTube. The zit is a lie! It talks and makes facial expressions and gestures--and it has a really, really annoying voice.

eMixt.ro

#64 – 1:53 PM October 30, 2009

This goes back to the ancient belief and now proved fact that Asians are all in fact...Robots. WTF is Christian Science anyway..Does that invlove Jesus and space ships cause i'm all down for them apples.
http://www.emixt.ro/

eMixt.ro

#65 – 1:56 PM October 30, 2009

The one on the left is the robot.
http://www.emixt.ro/