Man With Totally Normal Relationship To Human Women Builds Scarlett Johansson Robot
LatestBeing a beautiful and high-profile woman sounds great, if you can get past all the objectification and the often criminal invasions of your privacy. Also, sometimes, even when you definitely didn’t ask them to, nice men who you’re pretty sure you’ve never met make robots modeled after you.
That’s what happened to Scarlett Johansson recently. The Mirror reports that a 42-year-old product- and graphic designer from Hong Kong named Ricky Ma dedicated $50,000 and 18 months to building a humanoid robot designed to look like a Hollywood star. Although Ma won’t specify which actress he had in mind for Mark 1 (the name he gave to the robot), it does look just enough like Johansson for her to maybe want to consider taking out a restraining order. How flattering!