Wow your job sounds interesting. Looks as though you know what you are doing.

Hollywoods Plat-sil is better than Flubber. I stake my reputation on it. Hanson is a good showman, but i am unimpressed by some of their execution of sculpture, mechanics and Flubber?!.

This video proves it:

Singing

Talk about a walk into the uncanny valley. Compare to this silicone head (thats a fake head made of plat sil, silicone)

In regards to his robokinds, I feel those are over priced toys. I did not see the robot do anything but walk. Any biped robot can do that. I'd be interested to hear what you say when you get your robot.

Just my 2 cents worth.

mostly i hear is hanson is the best in robotics from so many replys on the internet i dont really turst anything from youtube unless the inventer added it how many emotions will your design have

here is his bio

david hanson emotions is what i am looking for the most,as in telementry suit i am designing ,that will be i biggest design ever,full contact suit like in FX2 MOVIE,now where near the toys (i call them)on instructables using EKG AND EEG monitors and force sensors and so much more

his bio is so unreal

That link to the video is on his home page under "Alice". I think his background is more animatronics. If he has a solid platform for his software and hardware and its opensource it could be be the way to go.

I'm not putting in that many emotions in because I am trying to stay robotic and not "uncanny valley". But if this were for a film I could throw in as many emotions as I had room for servos in the head. Also if i sell this as a kit "full size", I want to limit the complexity for the average joe to assemble (and in least amount of parts)

Will

how much will the silicone sell for.i found some a video on the film industry that was using it and compare to his ffubber material and he says its much more advance,so i would love to compare both of of them,never heard of yours used in robotics i like only real life feel and full emotion robots they more human thats why i am into advance AI SOFTWARE THAT PHOTO looks like a real person,can tell by the eyes its not silicone can i see it with the mouth open or part of skin removed is this the platsil silicone

platsil silicone

That is the correct material or a variant thereof. That is a real silicone head made by a company here in Hollywood called ADI. I saw it in person. It probably cost $250k or more. Hollywood throws away tons of money for effects like that. Some budgets can grow to 250 million dollars or more. You can build anything for that kinda money. Discusting when there are starving people in the world. Anyways look it up on the internet there are works in progress photos. As a make up effects artist for 25 years I have made hundreds of fake heads for film and television. It's part of the job.

I had posted earlier on a thread that my life long interest in robotics would hopefully cross over from my film job. I want to create a robotics company using 3d scanning, rapidrototyping to put new skins on robots and create movie type exteriors on new robots.

The making of this head can be found here:

Click To Watch Video

i see it for $35,when i get a chance will email david hanson again to see he know about it andd how it compares to flubber,i am thinging it too cheap,witch is good for robot builders like us ,most likely he would use in his robots if it was any good

and what about the photo you put up its not silicone at all,can tell by the eyes and around the eyes and more ,i would like to see a cross section of it

if you are looking at very good 3d scanning then look at ROS software well over 1000 modules but only in LINUX my JOHNNY FIVE ROBOT is a wooden prop from the movie,BOUGHT IT FOR $500using is and plans from input-inc to build a full size JOHNNY FIVE ROBOT ,like others have made full size R2-D2 IS MOSTLY ABOUT $5000 TO BUILD IT ,mos t r2d2 builder clubs by parts a little at a time mine i think will cost the same,mostly since i have more funds i would ever need ,will mostly all parts at once or make them

have to buy some of that silicone to see how well it will work for my head design after is done ,not looking to sell it many dont need money now and like doing stuff for other for free,just post plans on how to build it,since it will be alot cheaper for the average robot builder ,that cant spend to much money boulding a strong bench for my lathe and milling machine set up,but i dont think any part needs to be made,only hard is the head shell

Did you watch the link for the making of the fake head?