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Researchers at the University of California at San Diego have brought Albert Einstein to life in the form of a robot
The researchers said some of the bot's learned facial expressions still appear awkward and that their model may currently be too simple to describe the coupled interactions between facial muscles and skin that can produce thousands of expressions in the typical non-frubber face.
According to the team, it is currently working on a more accurate facial expression generation model.
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