What Sex is Your Robot?

Posted by michael on Thursday May 6, 2004 @01:46AM from the battery-powered dept.

Ant writes "Technology Review has an article about how the more robots interact with humans, the more important their apparent gender becomes."

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MY WOBOT IS MALE, HIS NAME IS CHOLLY by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-06 01:46 · Score: -1, Flamebait

SOLLY CHOLLY!
I might have known... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-06 01:55 · Score: -1, Flamebait

...that the Slashdot rabble cannot handle anything to do with gender objectively. Out come all the cheap shots at people with gender identity and/or sexual orientation issues.

She-males and hermaphrodites...get a clue and a life, and gimme a break!
Re:Female. by Percent+Man · 2004-05-06 02:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

gender is such a human construct...

Uh - so primitive (asexual) humans designed and constructed the X and Y chromosomes, adding them to the human genome? Dang, those guys^H^H^H^H folks were more advanced than we give them credit for!

Or, wait - maybe you're saying that a person can't be a "human construct" without having a "gender." But that flies in the face of what the liberal wing of the feminist movement has maintained for thirty some-odd years - that the human is entirely genderless?

I don't understand what you're trying to say... but I'm determined to make a joke out of it nonetheless. >;]
Re:Do you have to ask? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-05-06 09:43 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Nerds will always try to invent artificial women (like Anthony Michael Hall in Weird Science) because they have a better chance of building a robot/AI and scoring with it than with a real woman.