YouTuber buys a terrifying robot doppelgänger of himself

Welp, that's disturbing.
By Sam Haysom  on 
YouTuber Tom Scott face-to-face with a robot clone of himself
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Ever wondered what your robot clone might look like, when the machines inevitably grow intelligent enough to engineer a takeover of humankind that starts with them replacing us one by one?

Well, wonder no more!

In the video above, YouTuber Tom Scott pays a robot company in the UK that makes robot doubles of people to create a moving doppelgänger of him — and the result (which includes hand-painted skin and individually punched human hairs) is undeniably unnerving.

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.


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