A new robot, ECCEROBOT, is considered the world’s first anthropomimetic robot. The ECCEROBOT, which stands for “Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot”, mimics the internal structure of a person.

It has robotic equivalents of muscles, tendons and even bones. The bones are made from thermoplastic poly-morph, which is a material that can be molded at relatively low temperatures and even looks a bit like bone in its coloration.

Right now, it is only the torso that is complete. There are also relatively minor control issues that are still being worked through. However, this shows that robots can be built that not only look humanoid, but that move like humans do. This is useful for not only creating robots that can more naturally interact with people, but in studying how we, ourselves, move.

That, and combined with the “programmable matter” now being developed and we basically have the Terminator.

Watch the ECCEROBOT in action below.