Einstein robot learns to smile and frown

A hyper-realistic robot has taught itself how to smile and make other facial expressions, it has been claimed.

Boffins at the University of California say their Einstein bot learned to make the recognized facial expressions by looking at itself in a mirror.

It randomly moved its 30 facial muscles - each controlled by a tiny servo motor - until it recognized the faces from its database in the mirror image.

The team say it is a huge step forward as currently a programmer must manually set up these kinds of realistic robots to make specific face expressions.

I personally think it is a huge step towards the inevitable robot uprising.