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Japanese Researchers Develop Sensor Skin
ScentCone writes "A University of Tokyo team has developed a flexible, laminated network of pressure and temperature sensors suitable for jobs such as robot fingers. Circuits as pressure sensors, and semiconductors as temperature sensors are not new, but the thin, networked laminate of the two is novel."
the porn industry will be the first to widely use this new technology.
Maybe now they can build better hands for their female android.
I wonder could this be adapted and built into prosthetics somehow? And if you combine it with some sort of ultra-thin LCD...
I, for one, welcome our new robo-skinned, chameleon overlords...
and if you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn...
for teaching women how to give a decent blowjob
As opposed to an indecent blowjob, I gather.
Take off every sig. For great justice.
I for one welcome our new touchy feely overlords.
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Say what you will, the Japanese have picked up the gauntlet to the biggest nerd challenge of all, getting a girlfriend. They're going to build her, they have the technology. She will be stronger, faster, better! Like an Aibo, she will always be happy to see you. She will be soft and smooth and react to touch due to this skin. She will walk upright like a QRIO or Asimo, be able to perform complex pre-programmed moves. She will have a mute button.
...in Japan!
The future is here. Domestic girlfriends are fuel efficient and reliable
In other news tonight it was announced that Americans have now developed the capacity to think.
Both are mere reinventions, evolution created those features by accident millions of years ago.
Oh you mean artificial sensitive skin?
This space is intentionally staring blankly at you
"Or how about a dildo with built in sensors for teaching women how to give a decent blowjob?"
No thanks, I prefer to use my old-fashioned teaching tool.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
What the hell are you talking about? Have you ever jerked off before? Touching oneself is totally different from being touched by someone else mate. I learned that in church.
Do I really need to hear from my girlfriend that her robot is more sensitive than I am?
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If you entirely cover the robot with this "skin," will the resulting load of sensor inputs require a type of brain structure that could lead to behaviors purely focused on the sensor input--including "pleasure"?
Addict robots, pervert robots, killer robots. With these one could automate the entire Republican Party!