Meet Charles, the Disembodied, Terror-Inducing GPS Navigator Robot [Robots]

You know what’s not terrifying enough? GPS systems. Thank goodness for Charles.

Charles, you notice, is a bodiless GPS system that vaguely resembles a man’s head and shoulders. It sits to your passenger seat (as much as a bodiless GPS terrorbot can sit anyway), reads your facial cues, tone of voice and other behavior and gives directions in a method that’s sympathetic on your mood.

Fantastic!

The oldsters at Cambridge assure us that Charles is ready 70% accurate at gauging the emotional state of the motive force.

In rare cases, Charles is 100% accurate, but that’s only with the emotion ” rage” and only when it’s sailing out the window of a moving vehicle. [ Daily Mail via Engadget ]

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