The tech start-up behind the creation, Clone Robotics, hail it as the world's first "musculoskeletal android", and released this disturbing footage of the bot jerking around like a half-dead puppet.
The robot is a "clone" designed to look as human as possible - gristle, sinew and all - and its creators hope it'll soon be lurking around our homes.
WATCH the haunting moment the world's first humanoid robot Protoclone - complete with muscles and bones - twitches and spasms into life.
However, Kengoro was intended as a research project, whereas Clone has its sights set on commercial, domestic androids placed in homes around the world.
Clone responded by saying: "The Hand of Clone has the same number of degrees of freedom and is just as fast or fast, but is:.
