Japan has announced another android that is reportedly more human-like than ever before. The new android, which is designed to look like a female human, is named Repliee Q1.

Flexible silicone skin combines with sensors and motors to enable a range of movement and reactions that make Repliee Q1 eerily human.

She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a human. She even appears to breathe.

Professor Hiroshi Ishiguru of Osaka University says one day robots could fool us into believing they are human.

Repliee Q1 is not like any robot you will have seen before, at least outside of science-fiction movies.

She is designed to look human and although she can only sit at present, she has 31 actuators in her upper body, powered by a nearby air compressor, programmed to allow her to move like a human.

According to observers at the World Expo in Japan where Repliee Q1 was unveiled, however, the robot experienced some glitch-related “spasms,” indicating that androids may not be poised to take over the world any time soon.

For more information about the current state of android development, go to World’s Greatest Android Projects.

Thanks to Raymond S for the heads up.