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Is a Robotic Cat the Purr-fect Gift for Your Favorite Elder?
NBC News ^
| November 18, 2015
| Reem Nasr
Posted on 11/19/2015 1:57:37 PM PST by C19fan
If a real cat isn't an option for you, this could be a way around that.
Toy company Hasbro is offering a new adult toy, Companion Pets, targeted specifically for seniors. The "Joy for All" pets are robotic cats that "look, feel and sound like real cats," Hasbro says.
There are three different-colored cats to choose from on the website. All are priced at $99.99.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: cats; robotics
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When engineers create an AI cat is that the singularity?
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posted on
11/19/2015 1:57:37 PM PST
by
C19fan
To: KC_Lion; TADSLOS; Lazamataz
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posted on
11/19/2015 1:59:49 PM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
To: C19fan
Robotic cat. Yeah....uh, no.
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:04:22 PM PST
by
FourPeas
("Conservatism's worked every time it's been tried." -Rush)
To: FourPeas; tx_eggman
BAH! Just another toy my wife will want batteries for...
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:04:54 PM PST
by
SpinnerWebb
(Winter is coming)
To: C19fan
Do you suppose they do crazy running through the house at odd times? Can they sit on you so as to put weight on your bladder at 3 a.m.? I wonder if they “answer” when you talk to them, like our Bob does?
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:05:36 PM PST
by
NEMDF
To: C19fan
Does the “I” in “AI” stand for “instinct”?
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:07:23 PM PST
by
Olog-hai
To: C19fan
Does it jump when it sees a cucumber?
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:07:29 PM PST
by
TalonDJ
To: C19fan
Perhaps if my neighbors would switch to robot cats, their real cats wouldn’t keep coming over to kill the birds at my feeder as well as pissing on everything. I think I’m all for robot cats. Good invention!
To: C19fan
We have become an asylum of a nation.
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:08:26 PM PST
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: SpinnerWebb
Ask your doctor if D cells are right for you ;)
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:08:52 PM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
To: right way right
Well yea but this has nothing to do with it.
Eventually, assuming we survive the GOP, we will get to that sci-fi place where artificial cats are very real in most ways rather than a toy. This is a great idea for older folks/companion animals. It’s just the first step.
Perception is reality.
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:12:53 PM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
To: Norm Lenhart
Oh well, at least a robot cat won’t piss on my stuff.
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:17:17 PM PST
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: C19fan
I’m sure they’d appreciate an electronic pussy.
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:19:57 PM PST
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: C19fan
Well I hear they are easier to clean up after since the crap batteries.
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:20:15 PM PST
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: right way right
Kidding aside, exactly.
That alone keeps pets out of old folks homes. Then there’s the allergy thing, general health concerns etc.
If you make something real enough, it won’t matter. People are just as attached to TV shows as they ever could be to a robocat. But we don’t think it odd that people reschedule their lives around the sunday game.
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:24:42 PM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
To: Norm Lenhart
Ask your doctor if D cells are right for you ;)
Freaking Hilarious!
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:29:37 PM PST
by
Boiler Plate
("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
To: TalonDJ
"Does it jump when it sees a cucumber?"
Men never wonder why their wives are always buying cucumbers, but there are never any in the salad ...
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:32:42 PM PST
by
BlueLancer
(Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
To: C19fan
Its not even real! They`re going to become emotionally attached to a toy? What are we talking about here, two year olds!?!
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:36:27 PM PST
by
nomad
To: nomad
I take it you never lived around anyone with Alzheimer/Dementia. Yes. We are talking about people mentally regresses in many cases.
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:38:34 PM PST
by
Norm Lenhart
(Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
To: C19fan
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posted on
11/19/2015 2:40:32 PM PST
by
JoeProBono
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