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Inventor Builds Robot Wife
Inventor Le Trung must really like the book "The Stepford Wives," because he has built the dream of every lonely man without hope, a robot wife. Le's wife, Aiko, starts the day by reading him the newspaper headlines and they go for a drives in the countryside. Le says his relationship with Aiko hasn't strayed into the bedroom, but a few tweaks could turn her into a sexual partner, even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm. *Shudder*
It appears from the picture in the article that Chewbacca was way ahead of this guy.
It could be worse, it could be Monday.
But it starts with the premise that dumb people breed... a LOT. While the smart people, well, this here is one extreme.
Giving us the resulting societies we are in.
That's just soo wrong.
- High Tech workers, please say NO to Union Carpenters, their Union sees fit to control our compensation.
They make an orgasming robot... So, ummm... Where can I order one again?
Xaotik Designs
...even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm. *Shudder*
1) Nope, not convincing
2) So it faithfully reproduces every aspect of a real wife? Except that it has an off switch*...
* /me is going to hell for that one
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Dude... I have like, simulated orgasm like, everyday!
Actually, this was a guy in Canada, according to the article.
This is probably the best thing I've seen on Idle so far.
I'd hit it
even redesigning her to have a simulated orgasm. *Shudder*
Don't you mean *Quiver*
Operator, give me the number for 911!
I don't know if that makes it better or worse...
Xaotik Designs
Come on! . . Why would the readers of Slashdot be interested in this type of subject?
Wait a second. . .
Ok, so it's not the original but it's the best I could find.
Don't date robots!
dont make "your wife" jokes to this guy, she will find you and chase you around with a truck to ultimatly be thrown in a smelter "come with me if you want to live" ~Sumer Glau
"Har-court! Harcourt Fenton Mudd! Where have you been? What have you been up to? Nothing good, I'm sure - well, let me tell you, you lazy, good-for-nothing-"
but why is Slashdot linking to Sun articles, when it could be linking to a reputable news source , a year ago, featuring her whole (wheelchair-bound body).
Only joking.
I have a protocol droid and an R2 unit which will serve their owners well. I am also renting out my bulk Corillian freighter. She may not look like much, but she can make point five past light speed.
I mean, he had the chance to design his own wife, and look how flat-chested he made her.
"A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy." --Theodore Roosevelt
Harcourt Fenton Mudd!!!
The robot wife is really great, but the mother in law is sort of a killjoy.
You can't handle the truth.
Stallman has his on pre-order, provided her brain isn't written with non-free software.
Project's web site, including technical specs and more videos
Hold your comments until you see this pic of the robot...
"Le Trung" is not a Japanese name. Also, he lives in Canada.
Lars and the Real Girl. A great film about a guy's relationship with his "Real Doll" partner.
... and then they built the supercollider.
From TFV. The processing unit can do math. You only need to write these:
.... sin(y))
cos(z) * (w
w = 40
y = 10
z = 11
and say "Aiko, process math", and it will tell you the answer. Amazing!
The correct answer is 0.1746. I can't see the whole formula. Anyone can guess it?
Does it go around saying "pan-tsu. pan-tsu. pan-tsu." ?
Hope he moved the power switch.
I am surprised at the dismay over this. I didn't realize so many people here were such robophobes. Robots are productive members of our society; we must remember that our modern world would probably collapse without robots doing the type of work we no longer want to do. Maybe it's too advanced for THIS generation, but I think robots and human marriage will be a normal thing for our kids.
Shudder? Ick? Oh, please. Don't pretend you haven't thought about it.
I hate people who pretend to be above it all .. it usually turns out that they are actually doing the dirty along with everyone else, they just don't want anyone else to find out about it.
-- Ed Carp, N7EKG erc@pobox.com PGP KeyID: 0x0BD32C9B What I'm up to: http://intuitives.mine.nu
...particularly given the 'newspaper' (read: comic) it's published in.
Also slightly weird that he made the robot look like a 12-year-old.
How much does a Swedish model run for?
while(1){
nag();
}
It is a marvel, just hard to stomach as a female. I don't understand the application of a robot like this but I am not a man.
You've just attracted the attention of many Slashdot readers. ;)
for(;;) {clean();makefood();sex()}
It's an old, old story: boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy builds girl.
(Shamelessly stolen from my uncle the science fiction writer.)
Reminds me of that xkcd cartoon...
Man: Aiko, make me a sandwhich.
Aiko: Access denied.
Man: Aiko, sudo make me a sandwhich.
Aiko: Turkey, or ham?
Trying to install linux on my microwave, but keep getting a kernel panic...
Hey Jane, whats the game?
if(conductivity sensor in *beep* starts conducting)
give_electric_shocks();
Exteriors for both men and women and this seems to be something of a match in technology. but thise is this too ASIMO which can walk and run.
... his name will be Mudd.
The first thing I would do if I had one is corrupt the poor thing. Be swearing like a fucking sailor in no time and her volume would gradually get louder and louder until you told her to shut up. And it may not work. Maybe teach her to shoplift. Built-in plausible deniability, dude.
His name is "Le Trung", which is about as un-Japanese as you can get...
A couple minutes from the end, he forgets the question briefly, stutters a little, and breaks his usual pace--and she answers the question anyway, even though he hasn't gotten it out yet.
I'm 99% sure this is scripted. There's not much evidence here that she's anything more than a RealDoll Ruxpin. There's probably -some- computer control there, assuming it's not a remote-control Mechanical Turk, given that it responded to the "stop!" commands. The rest? I'll believe it when it's not just him asking the questions.
where Slashdot links to articles in The Sun!!?
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This is probably the best thing I've seen on Idle so far.
Or least worst, anyway.
http://michaelsmith.id.au
To perfect his creation he needs to improve it's nagging skills and program it to complain about his job and how he should look for a better one. Also programming an icy gaze for your anniversary would help. It's far easier to program a robot to remember an anniversary than a human.
It'll be interesting when people can order customized versions of this... I can imagine the shop will get calls similar to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Irs1ewDoM one of my favourite prank calls. Enjoy
Would you like to register me?...
I once stuck my penis inside the Roomba. Who am I to judge this guy?
I wonder if the guy can do a slightly ameliorated version from a picture?! I am sure a lot of women would buy this and their husbands won't even make the difference. It sounds too good to be true, you go out and you leave the man with your better-self, no cheating, no scandals.. the paradise :D
I'm sure it'd be easier to get a BDSM slave or two, and they really will do pretty much anything you want.
She's only TWO YEARS old!!!
PAEDO!!!!!
Great ^^ , now I don't need to get married .
... can you imagine a beowulf cluster of those. Ok, even two would do. Twins, maybe ...
"men always want to touch her, and if they do it the wrong way she slaps them"
Nobody cares if you upset a droid...
Deal's off!! Post back again when she will lick my foot.
When there are woman out there... two of them... with a cup... Aiko does not yet compete with real women. But with that said, the need to replace women in general should indicate clearly that women are doing something wrong.
Perfect image recognition + perfect handwriting recognition all decoded and read out in real time AND doing the maths too?
Sorry , but this is a fraud - its nothing more than a pre-programmed voice box he's set up beforehand and he then puts the correct thing in front of it at the right time so it looks like its comprehending it. If you don't believe me ask yourself what are the odds that one guy could do with $14K what big corps like IBM have failed to do with hundreds of millions of dollars or research? He's either a fscking genius and has invented algorithms 20 years ahead of their time or he's got some snake oil tucked away just out of camera shot.
Just a hundred years ahead of its time. We'll most likely be dead before it becomes realistic *sigh*
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
I hate to say it, but Slashdot users rejoice! :-)
isn't the trick to get the woman from a simulated to a real orgasm? ;)
Yep; it's Vietnamese in fact
Is much more informative
For example, you might have guessed that the guy was into anime but reading his resume you have absolute proof.
He did 3 "how-to" books on the subject of drawing in manga style.
Also...
I mean, you got go give it to the guy - he is quick.
If he continues with this tempo he will have his army of robot maids built in no time.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
if she (it) can mow the lawn, wash dishes, wash the laundry, sweep & mop the floors, and any other misc household chore i program in to it...
Politics is Treachery, Religion is Brainwashing
Its like the 1950's all over again.
Building, programming, and maintaining a fully functional female robot is easier and cheaper than understanding the real thing.
Use your head, can't you, use your head,
You're on earth, there's no cure for that - S. Beckett
"Building your robot" wife isn't the dream of any lonely guy. Because it isn't a person, it cannot really relieve lonelyness at all. Building robot wives comes in two categories only:
Either it's really just a brainless robot. In that case, you're probably better off with fantasizing than buying a fragile piece of animated plastic for big bugs. Fantasy is more flexible and healthier from a psychological perspective (I don't need to go into the "why" on this one, don't I?).
The second category is some sort of machine with artificial intelligence in it. We're getting closer and closer to this scenario, and I predict we'll see the first edge cases in the next few years. Well, in that case buying a robot wife is more like buying time with a hooker, only it's more sinister because this amounts to nothing else but slavery. And the argument that we can build the willingness to serve right into their brains doesn't count either.
In any case, there is no way this is healthy or ethical. It's wrong.
'STOP Aiko', is the best command he has designed, I'd feel a lot better if I could use this with real woman when they start to talk too much (that is, ALWAYS).
TFA says "in her 20s"... The asian girls I know look like that in their early teens... not in their 20s!
The pervert, I bet the "tweaks" to turn "her" into a sexual partner are already there to be enabled!
He wanted to build a robot that took care of elderly and got distracted... YEAH RIGHT!
mmm... chobits
I have frozen myself so I may live to see the wonders of the future. Thaw me out when robot wives are cheap and effective. P.S. Please alter my pants as fashion dictates.
This doesn't look the least bit like Lucy Liu. And this is /. ...there's SUPPOSED to be a reference to Sarah Connor, surely.
Shiny. Let's be bad guys...
Basic pleasure model
Is made even more obvious in the concept drawings for C3P0, but take a look at Maria, from the 1927 film Metropolis.
Cheers,
Ian
Years ago I would havve mocked this. But the older I get I realize there are many people out there that just don't find someone. There are people that are "hopeless"
They end up crazy cat or dog people but I now can see that a robot wouldn't be any different then a cat or dog that a person bonds with.
I doubt many people would be lining up for the sex upgrade. I've meet some very lonely people (hospic for instance) and it's just the idea that there is someone there, be it a dog, or cat, or I suppose a robot. There are people that truely love their pets and bond with them. From cats, dogs, rats, bats, snakes, horses, goats, ferrits, birds of all sorts, and even fish. I suppose a robot would be no different really.
There are some people that aren't going to find companionship in life. I see quite a few mentally handicapped people in thier 70 and 80 (those that survive some rather barbaric eugenics movements) who never have been on a date. If a robot could have provided them some companionship, so be it.
Maybe I'm getting soft in my old age... but I just can seem to find the energy to mock this stuff anymore. I've seen too many lonley people suffering quietly who could use someone that fits some of the holes in their hearts. And sometimes you just need to hear someone speak to you. Some gaps, no pet can fill.
-=[ Who Is John Galt? ]=-
I had the androids construct a perfect replica of Stella ... thing ... thing ...
so that I could gaze upon her
and rejoice in her absence.
Gentlemen, attend.
Stella, dear.
Mm, Harcourt.
Harcourt Fenton Mudd, what have you been up to?
Nothing good, I'm sure.
Well, let me tell you,
you lazy, good-for-nothing --
Shut up.
nothing
Marvelous, isn't it?
I finally have the last word with her
"They killed me, Mal. They killed me with a sword..."
... overlords. One must take a stand at some point.
If humans are able to create sex partners then the entire human race will wither away.
"Stay away from our women. You've got metal fever, boy. Metal fever."
"I knew I should have shown him Electro Gonorrhea: The Noisy Killer."
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
FTA: Devoted Aiko â" âoein her 20sâ â" has a stunning 32-23-33 figure, pretty face and shiny hair. Should also read: comes complete with an assortment of outfits including Goth Lolita, Hello Kitty Maid, Sailor Moon Schoolgirl and Pink Nurse... FTA: She is always happy to clean the house for âoehusbandâ Le, help with his accounts or get him a drink. When she is put into iRobot Roomba mode Okay, he's got me here, that a HELL of a lot less expensive than a real wife... FTA: Computer ace Le, 33, from Ontario, Canada, has spent two years and £14,000 building his dream girl. FTA: He had planned to make an android to care for the elderly. But instead thought - "'no, I'll make a creepy prototype sexbot - to heck with the old people...) FTA: But his project â" inspired by sci-fi robots like Star Warsâ(TM)s C3PO â" strayed off-course. ...especially in the sense that it isn't complete anal-retentive, or homosexual (not that there is anything wrong with C-3PO being a poof)
FTA: Le said: âoeAiko is what happens when science meets beauty.â .
and when lust meets geek-desperation...
FTA: Robo-wife Aiko starts the day by reading Le the main newspaper headlines.
Then follows by reading the Playboy Adviser, and Penthouse Letters.
.
...preferring instead to remind Le constantly what a horrible provider he is and reminding him of his inadequacies in bed...
,,,then berates them, "Dammit, my nipples are not radio knobs - you stupid Japanese are creepy and don't know how to please a robot, or clearly a woman"...
FTA: The couple often go for a drive in the countryside, where Aiko proves a whizz at directions
Which makes her JUST LIKE any other wife in the car, except for the getting the instructions correct part - "Turn Right, Turn Right, Turn Right, Turn Right..."
FTA: And they always sit down for dinner together in the evening, although Aiko doesnâ(TM)t have much of an appetite.
FTA: Le says his relationship with Aiko hasnâ(TM)t strayed into the bedroom, but a few âoetweaksâ could turn her into a sexual partner.
Christ, this guy is such a dullard he has to get a robot 'tweaked' (most likely on meth) to get her to have sex with him...
FTA: Le said: âoeHer software could be redesigned to simulate her having an orgasm.â
so like so many wives out there, she has perfected faking the orgasm for him... (sigh)
FTA: Aiko can already react to being tickled or touched. She also recognises faces and speaks 13,000 sentences.
some of these sentences include: "stop touching me", "Don't touch me!", "Which part of STOP don't you understand otaku?". "NO! means NO!" and "I'm sorry, I can't do that Dave"...
FTA: Now Le is seeking a sponsor to help him overcome the robot-makerâ(TM)s biggest challenge â" making Aiko walk like a human.
Because, despite buying on outer-shell from REAL Doll, the fact that she walks like she has a palsy turns him off...
FTA: Once Aiko has been perfected, Le hopes to sell clones for use as home-helps.
ignoring the much more lucrative and inevitable market of automated sex-slaves.
FTA: He said: âoeAiko doesnâ(TM)t need holidays, food or rest, and will work almost 24 hours a day. She is the perfect woman.â
For which he now needs this robot, because after that comment, he will never get laid again by a human woman...
FTA: Aiko sparks mixed reactions in public. Le said: âoeWomen usually try to talk to her. But men always want to touch her, and if they do it the wrong way she slaps them.â
Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody... - Dick Armey
I've always felt that the Asian standard of beauty is that of a 14 year old girl. It's disgusting. \ If you need a sexual partner, just buy an inflatable doll moron!
Mental Magma is having a contest right now to write a haiku from the perspective of a sexbot. The winner gets an Amazon.com gift certificate. www.mentalmagma.com/archives/1319
I know that it is impossible to tell what will happen, but it is possible that someone will find the geekey guy has qualities that they would not have first seen, and grow to love them.
It is equally possible that the guy on the football team just saw an opportunity to marry into a rich family, and turns out to be a jerk.
I used to think the way that you did, until my older daughter ended up with a very attractive but lazy and often unemployed guy, who is always sending her to ask for money from us. I am now telling my younger daughter that it is better to look for someone of a similar social class. I am not "drumming" it into her and whether it will have any affect time will tell.
While 'fun in bed' is being had, all that is needed is someone to hack into her controls and have her spazzing out screaming "VIET CONG! VIET CONG!" with uploaded helicopter and small arms fire sound effects and an mp3 of "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones playing in the background.
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Finally I can have a wife!
I would have done it already had I been this guy, then it would have been picked up right away by VIVID and presto, instant billions.
Because he is waiting to install orgasm 1.0, now competitors have time to catch up!
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/552049
What the servo position encoders fail in the Vaginal Assembly Muscles Simulator?
Would not the motors go full power (like injket printers with a missing encoder disk/strip) to constrict and the corresponding power surge causes the control unit to crash, keeping the VAMS in the constricted phase? What if he forgot to debur the metal parts under the polymer and these cut through the polymer sheathing and....BOBBITT!
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I wonder if this would be as costly as my last one ... before, during and after divorce ?!?
== With enough Will Power, one could move mountains. With enough Brains, one would just leave them where they are ==
Wow that's great for him! He is living his dream. Which is apparently living with a 12 year old looking female robot.
I don't think his motives are strictly scientifically. First he denies to having sex with it. Then he continues to state that he he could implement an orgasm simulator. And finally he say "You have big breasts" to the machine. Even if that phrase was just nerd talk, what person says that during a public demonstration?
I hope she comes with a mute button. Women don't know how to shut up at times as it is, she would have even less understanding of this concept.
Um, what is all this talk about the guy being Japanese?
He may be into anime, but "Le Trung" is not a Japanese name. (Offhand I would guess Vietnamese, but I'm not sure.)
In any case TFA says he is from Ontario, Canada.
Who cares!
This was, of course, foretold by that great sage Alice Cooper, back in 1974:
http://www.metrolyrics.com/woman-machine-lyrics-alice-cooper.html
Coop's woman-machine was strictly analog, though... "brains of tape.... change the tubes" etc.
sig has been sent away for a few small repairs...
If this thing isn't giving me grief any chance it gets then I would hardly call that real...
In many places a woman with big boobies is considered unattractive.
I don't know about Japan, but given the petite proportions of most of their womenfolk it would not surprise me if small breasts would have won aesthetic credence in their culture.
I am speculating, in any case I have to deal with the predilections in the UK, where many women, even intelligent, articulate ones, aspire to have two silicone Zeppelins on their frontage while aiming to be as thin as a broom.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
cool. The very first thing I would do is program her to GET OFF MY BACK. Then I would program her to think orgasms are food, and to live in a permanent state of hunger. And lastly, she would always address me as "Maaaaaassssttteeerrrrrrr Oooooo"
The Sun UK is a tabloid newspaper. So don't believe a word of it. The so called robot is actually just one of those personal dolls you can buy. They come with different heads, clothes, hands, feet, and even different positions. For real robot clones check out these out.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/21/hiroshi-ishiguro-builds-his-evil-android-twin-geminoid-hi-1/
http://www.engadget.com/2006/10/14/zou-renti-gets-an-evil-android-twin-too/
I think the "relevance" might have more to do with illustrating the mindset required to make such an endeavor a commercial success.
Who is going to be most successful building a "robotic care worker" or "companion"? Some engineer who works on this project in a lab, during work hours, or an individual who literally makes the project an integral part of his daily life?
It sounds to me like what the guy was *really* saying (if you "read between the lines" a little bit, not getting too caught up in the hype) is that he's seeking an investor to fund a project to make the doll walk in a human-like manner. The rest of this article just tries to sell people on the idea that he's committed to bringing such a task to fruition, if he was given the requested funding.
"It looks like coke" oh come on, how can she distinguish it so clearly?
when someone invents a blowjob robot that does the dishes.
They might have to work for a living.
Pair her with a Scooba and Roomba; partner with Fleshlight for interchangeable parts or those silicone 'life dolls', and you'd be set.
I think with the interesting people, their lives can't possibly be wrapped up into a nice little package.
But first, let's note that this was published in The Sun, on par with the US National Enquirer (supermarket tabloid), and most known for its Page 3 girls.
But then name? I'd have made the 'bot a little older... and then the name, would of course, have been Helen O'Loy.
mark
...she will link up to Skynet and the terminators will arise.
soon everything could be built into robots...why?
So now we have the "Engagement Ring", the "Wedding Ring", the "Suffer-ring", and the "Token-Ring".
I was under the impression that all female orgasms were simulated.
Same as a real woman. Who cares!
Anybody else think this is like serial killer weird? This guy needs to spend some serious time with a shrink...
... this thread clearly shows us who we will purchase our robots from. Apparently the West is oblivious to employment opportunities. Aiko is just one of hundreds of similar projects to create humanoid robots to assist people in the household. Yeah ... what a dumb idea ... a household robot, who could ever need that? Now guess where most of the development happens ...
I wonder if the manufacturer will except trade ins.
http://www.lipservicemusic.com
Pretty much.
Tons of articles already published: http://blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/2008/08/12/robot_builder_profile_aiko.html http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/19/aiko-worlds-first-sexually-harassed-disabled-fembot/ And if you want to talk with the builder, here you go: http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=1335.0
I know the guy, he posts on societyofrobots, a robotics forum I used to frequent. Unfortunately, I have to call rubbish on this one. I don't think he knows much about AI. He claims all sorts of incredible things that his robot supposedly does that are all far beyond what anyone has done in robotics, vision or AI as a whole, but never elaborates on how he did it, and discusses design issues that should, in practice, be non-issues.
Link to his thread on that forum: http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=1335.0
A quote of interest, from the robot's creator:
"I am what you called a mad scientist. I don:t believe any documentation, No blue print, No paperwork, No Cad. I have build 12+ large robots (main robots) none of which has any documentation or blue print...
Even the software has NO documentation. The software is about 3Gig and I think I have about 15 lines of comments. The typical variable name I used are.... X, X1,X2, A1,A2,AA1,AA2,AAA1,AAA2 etc..."
Some of the smart ones who can get laid, and have, learn pretty quickly just how demanding women can be.
For a technician, technical maintenance is much less of a sacrifice than the level of emotional maintenance that many women seem to require (not to mention the added demands and expenses of child-raising).
Once the technology is sufficiently advanced, the robot may actually be preferable to a human wife for many people who could have either.
Even the ugliest Asian guys still get hot asian chicks.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
Every man has a hope for a partner, they just need to get off their ass learn some new skills. Women are attracted to how you hold yourself and not by what you do or how good you look.. Well women worth dating that is.
The switch to turn off your wife is located in your shower, silly. Don't turn the shower on to turn your wife off. It's like a text adventure puzzle.
"She also recognises faces and speaks 13,000 sentences."
Well once you configure her for sex, delete 5 of those sentences...
"No baby, I'm not in the mood."
"No baby, I have a headache."
"I'm too tired, baby, maybe tomorrow night though."
"You missed a spot... when you were deleting your history today, what do you think?"
"I have chosen a superior interface device to replace you. *pulls out a vibrator* "
I know I have
Don't believe the tripe from the Sun... Might as well read the Enquirer.
Here's the REAL story:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081211.wrobot11/BNStory/Technology/home
What the hell just happened to /.'s comment page?
I've got a tiny block to write in!
Is /. fucking around with the interface again or is this another example of Mozilla's piss-ant QA for Firefox 3.0.4 running on openSUSE 11.0?
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters!! wtf is this doing in idle?!
with the touch I get with women , I bet that the first ting she would learn was toomplaint about my misplaced socks !
very interesting, but for what ?
NB.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Futurama-Dont-Date-Robots
I am surprised that noone has mentioned the cult sci-fi movie "Cherry 2000" about an android partner.
Commenters here don't even consider that a spouse is not the same as a servant.
Excuse me, slave. Servants are paid.
I prefer females with pulse and body temperature irrelevant of the room temperature.
He sure did get a lot of publicity though...
From the crowd that eagerly awaits the first remotely marketable model.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
I saw the headline before I saw the photograph and my first thought was "I bet some Asian guy made that."
Imagine my surprise when I saw the photograph....
The benefits are endless - won't gamble money away, no roving eye, won't bother you for sex when you're in the death throes of a particularly deep sleep, fixes everything around the house when you ask for it to be done not years later, never have to repeat yourself, won't hit on your friends unless you enjoy it, won't complain about money, won't clutter up the living space with junk, may probably be the better cook and provide you with nutritious home cooked meals, won't mind driving you around all over for errands and such, could be programmed for defense (excellent for security), if sexually functional, no biological surprises and always functional, no gross body odors, no baldness unless you like that feature, nor excess body hair (especially that weirdness from the ears again unless you like that feature), doesn't play stereo or tele at deafening decibels, never ages, never gains weight, and if they could include a solar panel to recharge the necessary "pocket rocket" we have a green technology people!
inventors work on it!
... I can't do it Honey, I haven't got enough power!
...Lorenzo / I'm into kinky crustaceans. I just discovered internet praWn.
Wow. Who knew a bunch of wannabe nerds could be so judgmental. From the majority of the responses thus far, first thing on a lot of people mind is SEX. Think about it. Is it practical for him to build the body or buy a sex doll and modify to suit his purpose. Get off the porn site and start thinking about AI and mechanic of the designs and you'll start to appreciate what this ONE guy has created. Of course a healthy dose of skepticism is good for the community but negativity does not help anyone.
Imagine what a creation he might make in conjunction with Realdoll
@peetm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Was_Made_to_Love_You
That's all I've got...
This guy is actually in Ontario, in Brampton. Winter is long, cold and boring up here.
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Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
This "robotic" wife looks suspiciously like the "lifelike" sex dolls one can find advertised in the pages of Japanese comic books.
Hello Cherry 2000
a woman with an on/off switch.
She's the only one I got (She's a robot)
Not much of a girlfriend
I never seem to get a lot (She's a robot)