By popsci Posted 10.20.2007 at 5:22 pm 0 Comments


   

Will Jackson's Robo Thespian is amazing. Here he is summoning the grand reveal from Empire Strikes Back, which is just one of the many scenes he can perform on the fly via a custom software controller. Actors record their voices and transpose their gestures with motion-capture devices, and each limb and feature—all the way down to his cellphone-screen eyes—can be pre-programmed or controlled live. —John Mahoney

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