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Futuristic Sex Robots Now Just "Sex Robots"
High-C writes "With apologies to Futuristic Sex Robotz, the future is here, and her name is Roxxxy. Truecompanion.com has revealed their answer to the Real Doll, and it looks nice. The site is short on details, pictures, pricing info, but wow." NOTE: some of the above links are not work-safe, for many values of work. I stopped by this exhibit today at the AVN Expo (not officially a part of CES, but by curious coincidence scheduled to coincide; the old saw that porn drives tech isn't without merit). Roxxxy, though, was rather unsexily posed on a couch, not moving a bit — downright creepy, in fact.
They are called vibrators.
Strangely, widely accepted by one of the sexes, this which is usually thought to be more demanding (on many levels) of partners.
One that hath name thou can not otter
DON'T DATE ROBOTS!
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
Half a dozen links and I couldn't find one pic of the damn robot. If it was that "creepy" posing on the couch, how could you not at least snap a picture?
Breakfast served all day!
Did I just see a link to Encyclopedia Dramatica on the Slashdot front page?
Um, a vibrator isn't a fake dick. You are thinking of a dildo. Although a vibrator may also be a dildo, not all dildos are vibrators. A vibrator is something that ...vibrates. it can be any shape.
Um...does this post make me a sex toy nazi?
The creator of this post (Jacob Smith) hereby releases it, and all of his other posts, into the public domain.
I just want to join the QA team.
Your god may be dead, but mine aren't!
She still doesn't look any more realistic than a blowup doll:
http://www.botjunkie.com/2010/01/09/ces2010-roxxxy-truecompanion-worlds-first-sex-robot-preview-nsfw/
But does she run on Linux...
"I bow to no man" - Riddick
can carry on a discussion and expresses her love to you and be your loving friend.
Yeah, because conversation and expressions of love is exactly what I'm looking for when the urge to "relieve" myself shows up ;) It's only one small step from this functionality to the lovebot claiming it has a backache when you start undressing ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
http://www.france24.com/en/20100110-firm-unveils-x-rated-robot
As you can see, the uncanny valley has not been bridged with sex robots. Looks less human than a mannequin. Nothing to see here, move along.
I feel presumptuous making a suggestion. But you opened the door, I'm just walking through.
I highly recommend using a proper lube instead of lotion. I like a water/glycerin/glycol product, like Astroglide. I have a (lady) friend who likes petroleum jelly. (Available in a tube if you go this route. I find the tub gross.)
I think you'll find much better lubrication and sensation. As a bonus, with the water based products cleanup is easier.
-Peter
Have gnu, will travel.
From one of the articles:
Inspiration for the sex robot sprang from the September 11, 2001 attacks, when planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon and an empty field in Pennsylvania.
Uh... I don't know what to say. I mean I really don't.
Ok hi, heh, ok heh. My name is Roxxy. Most of you know me as um oom ugh um most of you know me as Roxxy. I suppose if you're watching this you probably know me as Roxxy, but um ugh ugh most of you don't know me as moldy lunchbox and um so yeah thats my gaia username on gaiaonline and I told my gaiaonline friend buddy per. One second I'm uncomfortable. I told my gaiaonline buddy friend um that ADMIRAL AWESOME that I would make a video just for him. So I'm doing it, here it is, ADDIE LOVE YOU ARGH HAAH ARGH HAAH ARGH HAAH I LOVE YOU! And um um so lets see ugh what about urgh... just so you know cuz I know you're watching this addie cuz you're such a conceaded BASTARD.. umm I don't normally talk like this, I'm normally like all over the place like I am right now, but its a calmer voice most of the time unless I'm like really hyped up cuz then its even different still from this, but let me try again with my calmer voice. Ahem.. ugh erm.. Yeah I'm really like, its-its fun, its cool there it is its going again ARGH cuz its just so crazy. Um erm it um is.. I love you, I love addie because hes really like fun to talk to and stuff and like hes um like I met him only like 2 days ago and we're like married and it is crazy because we love each other so much. And um ugh we are twinies like all over the place, it is like crazy! His avatar is like a manwhore and I.. had a avatar like a really long time ago.. it was a SLUT AVATAR! *Gasp* And um right and he made an avatar to match my first skirt one, IT WAS SO CUTE IT WAS SO NICE I LOVE ADDIE!
------ Take away the right to say fuck and you take away the right to say fuck the government.
A Beowulf cluster fuck?
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
He killed me with a sword. How weird is that?
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..this time, most slashdotters actually RTFA.
I suddenly feel a little bit smug having only spent $25 on my vibrator, and the occasional pocket change on lotion and AA batteries. Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me. It feels good to be a girl right now. ^___^
It's like any other hobby - you can spend as much or as little as you want on it; with varying results. I'm sure a guy can save themselves a considerable amount over the cost of one of these dolls by buying a Fleshlight. Meanwhile, a girl might want to spend more than your toy's ticket price on a Symbian. And there's undoubtedly whole lines of mass-produced, small-run production, and custom equipment out there for every aspect of human sexuality.
Because other girls don't have dicks.
Granted, the fleshlight is a little over twice as expensive, but it's still in about the same range, and it is (more or less) the same kind of toy -- a disembodied genital.
Now, the TrueCompanion website doesn't list a price, and I assume it would be much higher. For comparison, it looks like the Female RealDoll runs around $5k or $6k... But they have Male ones, too, and they aren't cheaper, unless you go for the disembodied torso.
And a Sybian is a little over $1k.
So no, I don't think it really says all that much. I mean, I do agree with you about this:
Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me.
...though probably for a reason you wouldn't like: If I was that desperate, a prostitute is probably more cost-effective and convenient, and I'd rather not do either. But I don't really see anything about this to make one gender better or worse... ...though I suspect that far more women own vibrators than men own any sex toy. Maybe we make up for it in pornography?
Don't thank God, thank a doctor!
Hell, I divorced two wives because they wanted to "carry on a discussion". Believe an old rodeo clown like me, fellas, "discussion" is heavily overrated when it comes to relationships with the opposite sex.
Great. How long before she starts telling me to take out the garbage? No thanks. If you don't mind, I'll wait until I can get the rev 2.1 non-English speaking version, with the culinary-skills upgrade.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I know that the TCO of a couple mixed drinks, a venereal disease and eventual child support payments is more than $6,000, but I think your average buyer is gonna find that price tag pretty steep.
Especially when these things look like the fucking puppets from Team America: World Police!!
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
You don't want to think about that, it'd be a cluster fuck.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
TRUECOMPANION.COM: World's First Sex Robot * Always Turned On And Ready To Talk Or Play
It seems this is yet another technical project doomed to failure from a lack of proper requirements gathering before implementation.
The primary theoretical advantage of a sex robot is that you can turn it OFF.
What has *science* done?!? -- Dr. Weird (ATHF)
So I take it you did finish the job?
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Funny thing, I was just at an academic presentation on human trafficking connected with the sex trade a couple of weeks ago. I made the observation that the thing that had tended to lead to the complete end of other forms of extreme exploitation (slavery, debt bondage, and similar forms of unfree labour) was the mechanization of whatever it was that people were being forced to do, and that so far mechanizing human sexuality had proved difficult.
So I think it's fantastic that these companies are continuing to push the limits of exactly what range of basic human needs can be met through mechanization, because if there's ever eventually a product that genuinely meets this need for a large enough number of people, it'll basically end the economic viability of forced sex labour. Note that it doesn't have to meet these needs for everyone, just for enough people that setting up the infrastructure for forced sex work is no longer economically viable.
I also wonder if there'll ever be a crossover point where having a 'real doll' will be something that people are comfortable disclosing - kind of like the crossover that occurred sometime in the late 1990s - early 2000s with online dating in North America. In the 80s and earlier (for those of you who are too young to remember), meeting people online or through newspaper ads was something that was kind of desperate-seeming and embarrassing and something that people who'd met that way tended to 'hide' by making up some other story about how they'd met. Now it's basically normative, and it's rare to find people unwilling to say they met through an online dating service. Likewise, women owning vibrators went from being something no-one admitted to, to something that second-wave feminism made normative and no big deal (witness many of the comments about vibrators already in this thread, most of which aren't from 'anonymous cowards').
Anyway, I think it's going to be an interesting decade or so for people interested in the interactions between human sexuality and the labour market.
But just like paedophilia the numbers on sex trafficking are blown out of proportion by the alarmists. In actual fact, the number of women trafficked to the west against their will for the purposes of sex is insignificant. People smuggling is a far more serious problem.
The majority of sex workers travel of their own accord, this is particularly prevalent with SE Asian women where there is little stigmata against prostitution. This is why you can find Thai and Philipina girls working in many cities such as Amsterdam, Dubai, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur. Most of these women make a hundred times what they do with a "real" job in their own countries and often go home rich. Even in Thailand, in Phuket the minimum daily wage is 209 Baht per day (A$8) and these jobs will go to locals before a farm girl from Issan, Phuket is one of Thailand's richest provinces whilst Issan comprises the poorest provinces so the average daily wage is lower in the Issan provinces. Now these women could work 10-12 hour days in a factory or farm for less then 200 Baht a day or they could work in a bar in Phuket and potentially pull between 1000 and 4000 Baht a night (A$30 to A$130) via prostitution, obviously not every night but the prospect of this kind of money is very appealing to a girl who has little education and few employment opportunities.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.
Yea I too was wondering if I could order a 13 year old model.......oh wait, never mind.
I just want the same respect you'd give any man on this forum.
I think that's what he was giving you.
You joke, but it's a really good questions. A "seemingly 13 year old" sex robot would definitely be illegal in UK, for example, but what about US? If it would be legal, I can't wait to see the shitstorm that happens when someone actually has one made.
Our condolences. This sounds a lot like Taliban - perhaps you should ask to be liberated or something; I hear there is that country, can't remember its name, thats pretty good at that sort of thing. Especially if you've got a dry arid climate, they've got a lot of recent experience with that.
There's absolutely no problem with you being a girl. There are many girls on Slashdot, and I haven't ever seen that being a problem.
The problem with you, personally, is that you're very in-your-face about "I'm a girl, and that MATTERS!". That's what GP means by "constantly mentioning" and "attention whore". There's nothing wrong with identifying your gender when it's relevant to the topic at hand, but, judging by your post history, you're keen on dragging it into every discussion - and, if necessary, you will bend the discussion to do so. And you usually also do it in a deliberately provocative way to cause a gender pissing match. That's what annoys people.
Of all females posting to /. - which are surprisingly many, actually - and even out of quite a few who have explicitly identified themselves as lesbian or bi - you are the only one being singled out like that. You might consider if that is because of your attitude, rather than your gender or sexual orientation.
Um...does this post make me a sex toy nazi?
No, but you inspired me to finally sign up for an account.
Um...does this post make me a sex toy nazi?
Um, I dunno. Are you now a 12 inch tall vibrating Hitler?
Waitaminute... I suddenly sense an extremely profitable business opportunity!
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Because other girls don't have dicks.
At the moment, this comment is modded "Informative".
Only on Slashdot.
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war." -- Albert Einstein
So they don't need liberating.
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"Techiedude96" likely wouldn't say "It feels good to be a boy right now. ^___^"
Admittedly, that's mostly because we're a patriarchal society where it rarely if ever doesn't feel good to be a boy.
However, I think your post answered the question it begged - you can "feel good" by only spending $25 on a vibrator, with occasional batteries and lotion, and spending hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is "beyond you." Well, obviously.
Other people need more than bullets: both men and women alike. And you choose to rub in their faces the fact that they can't get off with pocket change, and you choose to bring gender into it by erroneously claiming that girls need spend less on sex supplies than guys.
That's sexist bullshit, girlintraining. And it's demeaning to a heck of a lot of people.
So you want to take "pride" in something that isn't an accomplishment (being female), while working to undo the accomplishments that have been made in the name of women, and sex, everywhere. Are you sure you're not working for a medal?
I've actually enjoyed many of your posts. They are often insightful. That being said, you DO seem to often mention both your gender and your sexuality quite often. We get it and most of us don't give a shit whether you're a man or a woman, gay or straight. Get over it and move on :)
Never know that there was to have pride to have a gender. How can I be proud of something I have no influence over. I am so proud to have the gender I have, to have the skin color I have and where I was born. Just plain silly.
The fact that you are a dyke is also of no interest. Who really cares?
And why would you visit a backwater geek website? If you don't like it, do not go there. So here another one for you:
Gay men love men and therefore do it with men.
Lesbians hate men and are therefore forced to sleep with the alternative.
All the gay bars I went to with a female, we were both more then welcome. The moment I said I was not gay, there was no problem.
All the lesbian bars I went to with a female, people either asked me to leave or treated me like I was raping women on the bar (if I was allowed to enter in the first place)
So talk again about sexist bullshit, because that is what I get from the majority of the lesbian community: sexist bullshit.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Not even remotely the same.
1) The knife wound is going to be warmer. You can't achieve the same effect with ground chuck since it will actually cook it and then you're just fucking cooked ground beef which has a much, much, different texture. Plus you had better wait till the meat cools off. Trust me.
2) You better have a real small dick, or a really large knife. Internal organs and muscle don't give, or conform, to the shape of your dick as readily as ground chuck. Plus it just feels weird man.
3) If you stab into muscle, the muscle around it can still contract. At best it can be interesting, at worst you are being carried around by a cow by your dick. Then you have to use your knife frantically to kill it.
4) You either let the cow run around with a deep stab wound (unethical and cruel), or kill it afterwards. You can't kill it before hand, because that would be bestial necrophilia and:
a) That's some seriously sick twisted perverted shit man. I'm disgusted you made me even think about it. Again.
b) A juror always pukes when they hear that in the court room and I got a weak stomach for that kind of stuff. Plus the judgment in everyone's eyes.
5) The only sane thing to do is to kill the cow in such a way as to make it look like aliens came and did shit to the cow. Most of time.. it ain't aliens.
P.S - Of course... just maybe... you have problems differentiating a +5 funny attempt and a +5 'I was actually fucking serious' :)
And yet I'd rather have people fuck all the robot kids they want than have them rape real children.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Why anyone would spend hundreds of dollars on a sex toy is beyond me.
Two words: violet wand.
What post history are you looking at? I just looked through the recent comments on her profile and couldn't see much mention of gender.
There was this thread and one other post about TSA data exchange specification that mentioned gender along with numerous other data fields. Other than that, it seemed like pretty typical nerdy chatter about malloc() jokes and energy through sewer tunnels.
Most females are great at conversation.
You just have to ask them a question to start them talking about something that interests them and then say "ah", "yes", "that bitch!" occasionally.*
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To be fair, dale carnegie teaches that the thing most people love talking about is themselves and you are seen as a great conversationalist if you get someone started, listen, then ask questions about things they say which you are genuinely curious about. At some point, most conversations will turn into a give and take.
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There's more than one comic routine about recognizing this fact.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
A comic on the radio the other day said, "no doesn't mean no- it means, work on the nipples some more, kiss the side of the neck some more, and check back in five minutes".
I've found most females have to approach sex sideways. "I'm not doing this.. oh look, we just somehow ended up naked and having sex".
OTH, The two females who were direct were a bit scary and offputting.
She was like chocolate when she drank... semi-sweet at first and then increasingly bitter.
All joking aside, I think the strong reaction by women against love robots for men stems from a perceived difference in what sex means for men and women.
Most women want something more then pure sex. And this is proving very hard to get, as most men just want them for sex. So the vibrator is NOT a replacement for what women want.
But a sex robot WOULD be a replacement for what men want.
Men are already obsolete. They can use a vibrator for penetration, spermbank for babies, and a dog for sleeping on the couch. And yet, women still want men. Desperate enough that many put up with abuse just to have one.
Women are not yet obsolete. There is nothing as soft as a woman, we can't have babies, and a cat is to affectionate and emotionally reliable.
But a robot that is close enough for sex... that could mess relationships up. How many of us guys (especially when we were young) put up with women just for the sex? Say you can get exactly the same without the real human being... would you still date (or for us /.ers attempt to date)?
Don't say that you need the human companionship. Especially us techies have consistently tried to remove the human factor from daily interactions. Ticket machines instead of a manned counter. Text-messaging instead of talking to someone. Discussing the days events on a website rather then with friends. Playing against bits rather then against human people in the same room.
So I get it that vibrators are more accepted. For most women, they are NOT a replacement for a male partner.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
I'm guessing this is a troll, but the fact that this is modded "Interesting" instead of "Troll" says something disturbing about slashdot. I can only imagine that a reasonable number of readers agree with it. Presumably embittered male readers.
So many things I could say, so let me pick the easiest: assets? Seriously? A neutral addition to the household, or a liability? How are they any more of a liability than YOU are, unless you are in fact suggesting that a woman's place is in the home and that "the skills that made them an asset in the past" are the only skills of value?
So rather than viewing women has human beings who you might want to share your life with, you're viewing them as a burdensome financial investment in exchange for sex. It's just barely possible that this attitude may go some way towards explaining the problems you've been having with women.
You and me both. The problem people will be those that feel they have some sort of divine (or otherwise) responsibility to shame and/or punish pedophiles just for being pedophiles, even when no child is or would have been harmed.
Back when I was still forced into going, I remember a sermon my father's pastor gave about homosexuality, wherein he basically said that as long as homosexuals do not act upon their urges in any way, shape, or form, then they can be as homosexual as they want. Maybe not the same thing, but for some reason I was reminded of that sermon.
"I'm not sure I like the fugnutish tone you used in your post!" -RogL (608926)-
In general, Western women are just a pain in the ass to be around.
And how. I think what we're seeing here is the inevitable overcorrection from feminism. Women convinced themselves they're entitled to anything and everything due to the oppression of women in the past. The problem is that it only leads to more oppression when you make yourself helpless.
If a good gyndroid cost $10,000, it would be considerably less than a man spends on a woman when amortized over ten or fifteen years. Frankly, a gyndroid would be a real bargain.
We're very far away from that. So far, it is still necessary to go out and find someone you can stand to be with. IMO, the biggest obstacle is puritanical views on sex programmed into all of us westerners (realize it or not) that tell us that sex is something it isn't. It prevents you from having sex with your friends, the people you should be having sex with, because of the likelihood that you will make sex into something it isn't, fly off the handle, and ruin a friendship.
I do have to say that I am fucking appalled by most women's inability to cook. Are they planning to marry a chef, or just eat in restaurants for the rest of their lives? My lady is a chef, and I still have to cook occasionally; you'd think more women would want to learn. But as you say, most of them don't know a fucking thing. This tendency is worst in the most attractive girls, who have guys fighting to support them. But in a world with divorce, that's not a valid plan for later life. When the beauty wears off, as it does for most women (especially those who spend a lot of time eating restaurant food) then they'll find themselves floating home.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I really hope I'm just feeding the troll here, because the alternative that it might be genuine is horrifying. I don't think I've ever read a bigger load of misogynistic tripe in my life. That 8 people at time of posting thought it was worth upmodding frankly scares me.
Women are not angels. They are not cooks, they are not money whores, they are not 'skilled life companions'. They are *people*. They are all individuals with different desires, loves, lusts, skills and minds.
Making love with a partner is not about just jamming a vibrating piece of plastic or your dick in her and expecting her to writhe with desire for you. Making love is as much in the head as it is the physicality of it. Building a relationship is not about exchanging money for sex, cooking and 'raising well-adjusted kids'.
I feel sorry for you, and I feel sorry for the women in your life, that you see them as just after the money in your wallet; that romance is about counting up how much the bill costs.
Yes, some women are not very nice people, just as some men are not very nice people either. But it's one thing to be an asshole, and it's another thing to then classify hundreds millions of women as all self-centered money-grubbing liabilities.
If a good gyndroid cost $10,000, it would be considerably less than a man spends on a woman when amortized over ten or fifteen years. Frankly, a gyndroid would be a real bargain.
If the only thing you're getting out the relationship is bad sex with a fucking sextoy, and all you're thinking about is complaining about how much it costs you; then yes, you're damn right you'd better off with a gyndroid. At least it won't care when you think of it as a piece of meat put on earth just to satisfy *you*.
Remember kids, it's all fun and games until someone commits wholesale galactic genocide.
Much, much, MUCH better a pile of metal and plastic shaped like a 13 year old child than a REAL 13-year old child.
I agree, but these religious types do not actually care about the victims, they care to tell people what they can and cannot do, i.e. they want to tell you what to do, think and believe. So having sex with a fake child is about as bad in their eyes as having sex with a real child.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
What is unhealthy is that they are likely to want the real thing eventually. Take for instance the straight male that gets one of these - it may placate him when he gets randy but it is only going to increase his appetite for more. hat makes you think a pedophile would be any different?
So you think pedophilia is 'curable'? It's not more curable than say, homosexuality is. It's a sexual preference. If that's not what you meant, how do you figure that getting an outlet for ones urges somehow makes a person even more desperate? In my head, it's kind of the other way around.