Androids resembles a human being both appearacne and behavior.  Do you believe that such things are almost out in the wild and we never know that some of our friends are one.
If you’ve ever seen an Android robot in the news, it probably came out of the Intelligent Robotics.  Hiroshi Ishiguro a professor of the Department of Adaptive Machine System. The Androids he made are highly actuated giving them a  human like facial expressions and reflexes.  Because the AI needed to interact in a human-like manner is not always advanced enough, Prof. Ishiguro has been looking to partially teleoperate his robots. Another approach investigated is to make his robots autonomous by having them perceive and react to their world through a sensor network of cameras.

Using these robots as a tool, Prof. Ishiguro has invented and explored the field of Android Science which looks at both the appearance and behavior of humanoid robots and their impact on human robot interactions.  Like what he had made can feel when you try to hurt it, it reacts and says something when it’s hurt.

In particular, he is looking to verify the existence of the uncanny valley and to explore how to make androids which sufficiently resemble humans to be likable. Ultimately, the question is now to understand what human presence really means.