Henrik Scharfe, a professor at Aalborg University at Denmark, is the one behind the Geminoid-DK, which is an eerily lifelike robot that was specially developed in his image, bringing us to new depths of the Uncanny Valley. Designed in order to examine the boundaries between robots and humans, this robot might eventually be the blueprint for the area of "welfare technology" in Denmark, where it would see the implementation of robot use as well as other modern devices in order to assist caring for the elderly and the disabled.
Ubergizmo, Robots to help the elderly?
