From Wired Science we have the Einstein Robot (I can kinda see the resemblance, can't you?). This is one incredibly realistic robot!

To get the incredibly realistic Einstein robot to make facial expressions, researchers used to have to program each of its 31 artificial muscles individually through trial and error. Now, computer scientists from the Machine Perception Laboratory at the University of California, San Diego have used machine learning to enable the robot to learn expressions on its own.

This is ... an open thread.