I'm curious as to why but not surprised to find out that Mark Tilden is behind this:

Mark, the designer of Robosapien, is a robotics physicist who has worked for NASA, DARPA and JPL through Los Alamos National Laboratory. He developed the basics for biomorphic robotics in 1988; Robosapien is the first commercially available robot based upon this principle.

I've blogged about Mark in the past here.