Don't worry, the robot double has been fully decommissioned. It is absolutely not writing this comment instead of actual Tom.

Robot: "What is my purpose?" Tom: "You do sponsorships." Robot: "Oh my God!"

if they made the eyelids actually connected, it would have been 47% more human

Those... cold... dead... eyes... They did a really good job of replicating that with the robot!

Tom Bott's expressions when interrupted by Tom Scott are absolutely priceless.

This was just Tom Scott presenting us the old prototype version of himself. Turns out he’s actually been Tom Bot all along

When the Robot is talking you can clearly tell how "bad" the mouth movement is But when Actual Tom interrupts the Robot looks more genuinely annoyed that someone is cutting in

Tom's reactions are solid gold! If they work on the eyelids and mouth more, they'll have it nailed. The bot was having trouble with the "O" shape of the lips. I lipread a lot, and when it said "Nord" it looked to me like it was saying "nerd". They should have some deaf people come in and help work on the facial movements.

The upper eye lids are really the biggest issue with making it realistic

The missed April fools potential is immeasurable.

Did anyone else get really bad chills at the end when the robot re-wakes up?

Tom bot didn't get scrubbed from the valley enough, but I can tell the company is on the right vien. For the grey robot, There was more time in the details, like additional lip movement parameters, more brow subtlety, the cleanliness of the lines surrounding the eyes. Tom bot was just a rush, & it shows, but I'm sold that the bot builders are on a solid path. When comparing the grey bot to that monstrosity called Sofia, the competition goes directly to the Grey bot. Great work yall.

I think one of the big issues with humanoid robots is we don’t just speak with our jaw. We speak with our jaw, tongue, and lips. No robot has all of those moving at the same time, or they just don’t get it right. Until then, ultra realistic humanoid robots will just be flat out creepy.

Tom Scott: "please nobody Deepfake me." Also Tom Scott:"could you guys build a robot likeness of me to do my ad reads for me?"

I can’t believe that we got to see what the inside of toms head looks like in this video, it honestly explains so much about how he has knowledge on so many things

Amazing and highly disturbing, all at the same time.

Tom Scott is the only person in the world who could find a way to make me voluntarily watch an advert. Well played!

This is SO incredibly creepy but also SO incredibly cool

7:55 at this point it works really well. When "he" gazes slightly towards Tom and he then gets eager and the eyes open up wide and the mouth opens up further. I feel like that is "more Tom". :D

this has huge potential for filming i feel like. from behind they’re indistinguishable, and it’s really the eyes that give it away to me

The fact that a VPN company actually reached to Tom is even more surprising than the fact that the advert was presented by a robot

The fact that there are moments where the robot briefly leaves the uncanny valley and registers as a "human" is more terrifying than just the regular "uncanny valley" robots

I just found your videos a few months ago or so, and I have to say, you're a very fun guy and I appreciate all you do and have done over the years.

I love how someone actually writes captions, thanks!

I like how this is insanely science-fiction stuff, but then they just connect it via USB

Robot company says "Come look at our robots". Tom "Sorry that's not enough for one of my videos". Also Tom: flails around on a bike for a video

Tom meeting his robot double: Now that I've found you! We can be a duo! That's right! Twice the evil, double Scottenshmirtz! Coming at you, *MONDAYS!* Uncanny. Love these people who pick apart every little thing. Personally, I'm amazed.

This is the ONLY ad for NordVPN, Raid, or ANY big youtuber sponserer that I will ever watch fully

it was incredibly realistic until it spoke. the detailing of the actual robot is insane, but there's a lot of progress to be made on movement. i cant wait to see how close it gets in the future.

The replica of Tom Scott is honestly amazing. Although the human motions still need a bit of tweaking, the fact that someone that isn’t looking hard enough would be fooled is quite amazing enough.

At 7:00 Tom gets in screen and at that part the robot looked even more real to me. It just looked at Tom and looked back at the camera and noded like he agrees with Tom about vpn's.

I can't believe how much humanoid robot technology has evolved over the past decade. Almost terrifying, even. When I was a kid I didn't think this would be possible.. amazing video!

The absolute madlad requested a robot version of himself just to get his NordVPN sponsorship back

This was amazing. Truly a leap in technology to see a robot version of you. It was quite uncanny

8:06 You made him sing Daisy Daisy. The attention to detail, I love it

five nights at tom scott's

The robot coming back to life and just staring at the end... bone-chilling

Other than the eyes, when its not talking it looks really good, im exited for the future of robots.

I think 99% of everyone else who saw a robotoic doppelganger of themselves would immediately scream their lungs out & bash it with a sledgehammer. I know I would.

For me, I think Ameca solves the uncanny valley problem pretty much perfectly. The blue/grey skin tone already cues us in that this is not a real human, so I don't get any creepy vibes seeing her in motion, unlike with Mesmer or robo-Tom. It was similar with Sonny in I, Robot. By having an obvious non-human aesthetic as part of the design, the robots counter-intuitively become more personable and life-like.

Tom meeting his robot felt like a twist on a horror movie, truly unearths undiscovered emotions

robots look like robots: dead eyes, no human inside.

so normally i skip the adverts but this one this one is very unique

I feel like the original Ameca (the gray robot) was able to leave the uncanny valley for me, simply because of the gray skin telling me it wasn't human. Tom Bott, however, was really deep in that valley.

7:00 The way the robot moved, looked to the side and then nodded in agreement with Tom was just Incredible, that was the most realistic and natural thing it did

Love how the guy kept stepping in to add information while the robot was talking. It looked like he was trying to prove his superiority to the robot. He definitely seemed jealous of the robot 🤣🤣🤣

This is next level advertisement

This is by far the best sponsorship integration I have ever seen 👏🏼 Great video, Tom!

I have seen westworld, so I know this is all going to work out fine

At the end, I love the nod at the end to Stanly Kubrik's '2001: A Space Odyssey' with the reference to "Daisy Daisy"

So these are the guys responsible for that creepily realistic grey faced robot. Cool to see more of them.

The main issue I have is with the corners of the eyes. It's a challenging part even when you're just dealing with animating a 3D model and those issues seem to compound when you make it in real silicone flesh as well. I suspect embedding some extra elastic into the corners of the eyes between the upper and lower lids to pull them taut would help to keep a more natural eye shape when it opens and closes the eyes. Still, it is a remarkable likeness. The other problem that leads to the uncanny valley effect is that the silicone and the pigments on the surface aren't able to fully replicate the sub-surface scattering of light in the same way that the human skin does, so it comes out looking more shallow than the real thing. Maybe backing a more translucent flesh-toned silicone with a red opaque silicone could help with that. The challenge with skin is that it isn't nearly as opaque as people ordinarily expect and just trying to paint on the color of skin as a surface treatment isn't nearly enough to make something look lifelike. I wonder if making the skin in a three-part process with a red backing layer, a semi-translucent base layer, painting it with more intense pigmentation, then applying a thin coat of an even more translucent skin-tone silicone and finally finishing it with a last layer of light airbrushing would get you the closest.

I feel like their latest robot is actually really close to getting out of the uncanny valley, the absolutley NAILED the way the eyes moved, all they need now is to focus on the mouth

I like that it came back to life in the end and looked into my eyes for many seconds. I will have nightmares forever!

I'd love to to see them create a Bender robot. A bit of a deviation from the form they typically make but with their tech they could make a unparalleled bender

Though still incredibly creepy, I can absolutely see Tom's mannerisms while speaking. The biggest thing missing for me is that Tom speaks with his hands a lot, so the robot seemed like it was tied down.

I always suspected NordVPN was getting bots to shill their product

That ad gave me shivers. So bizarre but entertaining.

Probably the best sponsor segment in all of KZfaq 😂

That must have been an interesting pitch meeting at Nord. "What's this line item for?" "We're paying to build a robot double of a KZfaqr to do an advertisement."

So I'm supposed to believe, that the VPN companies blacklisted you for calling them out, but *so long as it's a robot of you,* they're ok with it? That just seems way too... personal.

why was i expecting it to come alive again at the end

I like how they used an old video of Tom having a stroke to match the little here-and-there's to. Quite uncanny!

I'm glad Tom managed to come up with a good excuse for making a robot double.

Everyone's cool until the robot starts singing Daisy.

I just fell into the uncanny valley. It's Tom on heroin having a stroke.

the robots look like if you were to upscale half life 2 models to 4k

I think one of the biggest aspects keeping human analogs from being believable isn't always the imperfections of appearance but how they move. They are always too slow and smooth. If you pay attention to how people move we make a lot of really jerky fast movements quite often. Working on faster movements is going to make a huge difference in getting these to feel like people.

I wonder if we will ever get past the uncanny valley with robots. It seems like realistic ones will always be incredibly creepy

the way it looked up into my eyes at the very end... nightmare fuel

Really wish they could have had the robot saying at the end when Tom said shut it down, I'll be back.

You just know that even at the robot factory of the future, they had to make two take for that USB plugging to be smooth.

I disapprove of artificial characters replacing KZfaqrs.

Jesus, that blink at the end seals it all

8:15 I completely expected a jump scare here.

I strongly believe that companies that make humanoids could really benefit from hiring makeup artists to give their appearance that extra edge

When the robot wakes up at 8:17 is scarily the most realistic and convincing part.

The way it started singing Daisy bell at the and is incredible, WOW

Imagine this as a full robot with virtual reality and motion control.

For me, the weirdest thing about the robot is that when it's talking, the mouth moves exactly like how anime characters talk: just up and down.

"I need your red T-Shirt, your grey sweater and your E-Scooter." - The Tominator

The fact that it looks that much like Tom is unnerving.

Honestly, I think for now the best way to avoid the uncanny valley is to embrace the artifice. The unpainted grey-skinned machine with the seams on its "skin" was far less unsettling to me than either of the previous models or the final Tom Scott-Bot. Then again, I'm also a sucker for robots that use LEDs to convey expressions so I might just be the weird one here.

And it will not stop……

Finally, a personal Tom Scott anyone can use. To be honest, I still see bad VPN sponsors.

I like the reference to the tiktok audio at the end "daisy, daisy, Give me your answer do"

dude i rewatched it unplug like 12 times its so funny for some reason

There was a brief moment at the end where my brain vaguely felt like Tom Bott was alive and didn't want to be shut down, and that was properly terrifying

I love the part where the robot is programmed to seem scared that it's getting turned off and scrambles to talk about NordVPN more.

My brain: Tom Scott robot isn’t real it can’t hurt you Tom Scott robot:

I always always always love a 2001 A space odyssey reference. This is a sick video

7:40 “Sorry, what?” Hahah

I think what really makes this robot feel uncanny is three things: 1. Speaking is more than jaw movement, and facial expressions require more than 10 actuators. 2. It looks like it's fighting narcolepsy. 3. Human motion is not linear or sine-wavey. But stepper motors often are.

This looks weird and creepy but this is just the beginning, I know someday, sometime we will have an uncanny robots like this

I like the “daisy” reference! 🤣🤣🤣 …open the pod bay doors, TomBot! 😉

That ending when the robot wakes up again is... So brilliant yet so... Terrifying

The weird thing is that Ameca looks more human than Mesmer - despite being very obviously a robot

These are like player models in video games. I love it!

The best way to spot a robot on the spot is by its overall movement, lip movement and eye movement.

with that really articulated robot, my brain went "oh hey it's someone's 3D cgi animation!" but then I jolted when I recognized it existed IN an actual 3 D space!! I wonder if there will ever be a time where, like, pre-existing 3D animations from film and video games could be exported to these models? wild!