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Skin deep? Robots To Wear Real Human Tissue (thememo.com)
Scientists are already growing muscles, bones, and mini-organs in the lab. But these tissues are generally small and simple. That's why two scientists from Oxford University are proposing that we use humanoid robots to grow engineered tissues instead. From a report: Robots dressed in human flesh would benefit people who need tissue transplants, Oxford University researchers have said this week. At present human cells are grown in stationary environments, but moving humanoids could help them develop in a far more healthier way. Robots could "wear" tissue grafts before transplantation, researchers Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy and Andrew Carr propose in the latest issue of Science Robotics. Today sheets of cells are grown in stagnant tanks, but these "fail to mimic the real mechanical environment for cells," say the scientists. The resulting tissues aren't used to moving, stretching and straining, which make them problematic for use by patients.
I don't understand why this is needed.
I believe this was how the Terminator started.. apparently no one heeds the warnings..
Step 1: Skinbots Step 2: Sexbots Step 3: PROFIT! Step 4: Retread GOTO Step 1
Enough skin and organs and they make babies with us. Creepy. And so lonely.
You can see here how they put the skin on the robots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgV7-MJwUBw
Commander Data discovered how this might feel.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Enough skin and organs and they make babies with us. Creepy. And so lonely.
Women would love that, no more carrying around a meat sack for 9 months.
You should read Rudy Rucker's "Wetware." :)
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Yeah, perfect. It will be just like the move The Island.
That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
Not only will they take our jobs and make the rich richer, but they'll wear our skins while doing it?
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You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
Turns out ED-209's last name is Gein.
Warnings, what warnings? I've got the Terminator films filed right next to 1984, under Instruction Manuals.
I mean, I watch Agents of SHIELD, too.
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#4 retread
LOLLL!!!
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The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human.
Liberty - Security - Laziness - Pick any two.
what is this woman, you mean an axlotl tank?
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I could easily spot a Terminator in a war, it's the "Human" that looks like he eats 8000 calories a day and works out...
The in-world retro-fitted explanation is that technology only got that good with the T-800. The Arnold is the most compact humanoid outer flesh that they can manage to fit over the robotic chassis. Older models were even bulkier and looked even less human. OTOH, later model managed to camouflage better thanks to mimetic polyalloys and looked much more leaner.
The cinematographic reason : Cameron needed an actor that will look unstoppable and will inspire awe. The Arnold is the best he could manage to inspire this "mighty glacier" power. This stature has the on-screen effect that was in Cameron's vision for the movie, and to the hell if he doesn't remotely look like Michael Biehn (who's supposed to be the future's everyman).
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they're machines.
Just saying, robots might not be the only customers.
Ha, ha!
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Secondary?
"Robots dressed in human flesh would benefit people who need tissue transplants,"
I thought rich people used poor people for that purpose.
They would hate it, it would remove their power over man.
I'll be back!
That would get rid of the old joke about how people can be produced with "unskilled labor"...
They would hate it, it would remove their power over man.
Plenty of men get married and don't want kids.
Berkeley's principle of producing those reproduction machines would be "Just-Enough-Human."
Yes, they would be free to discover a service to our paradise that fullfills them most. And males would get to play outside.
I am here if you need to talk.
Someone had to do it.
Where's the westworld comment?!
The robots may not like the idea of being used as mannequins and the later having there skin removed for the sake of a human. They will probably want to keep what they believe to be their skin.
indeed, it's not technically cgi animation as we know it today.
more computer post-pprocess.
eg.: the scene were the T-1000 flows trough the prison "bars" door, is actually filmed with robert patrick simply walking straigh through a door that had the bar hacked off.
then, they digitally added the bars back in the scene, and had the original image of robert patrick wobble and distort to match the flow that a liquid-metal based robot would have.
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They would hate it, it would remove their power over man.
Plenty of men get married and don't want kids.
And plenty of them get kids whether they want them or not.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
. . . welcome our new flesh-toned, supple, creamy-textured . . . . overlords.
I'm a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
Then tear the skin from your limbs as you would a defective circuit.
Do it. Don't be tempted by flesh!