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The hyper-real robots that will replace receptionists, pop stars... and even sex dolls: Unnervingly
dailymail.co.uk ^

Posted on 11/21/2014 2:23:17 PM PST by BenLurkin

Chillingly life-like robots are causing a storm in Japan – where their creators are about to launch them as actresses, full-size mechanical copies for pop idol fans, and clones of the dearly departed.

There is even talk that the naturalistic, even engaging, she-droids may be taken up as men as partners in the not-too-distant future.

Android Asuna was a star attraction at Tokyo Designers’ Week showcase earlier this month and she is one of a series of geminoids, as their inventor dubs them, that are ripe for commercialisation say their creator robotics professor Hiroshi Ishiguro.

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A fully independent version of the geminoid is expected in 10 years using all the above technologies to make her virtually indistinguishable from humans says Mr. Takeshi Mita, CEO of A-Lab in Tokyo, the company working with Prof. Ishiguro to make Asuna and her kind commercial.

'We already have 20 year's experience making androids in the lab. So in 10 years we will marry AI and life like geminoids in perfection,' he told MailOnline.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Norm Lenhart

Nope.

Male gay leather porn.

I knew they were vile but...

*gag*


121 posted on 11/21/2014 4:34:20 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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To: Salamander

I DON’T THINK ‘smile” is a word that causes a lot of feelings of security in the context of this particular conversation Sal....Not at ALLL ;)

See “Wicked City” anime for details.


122 posted on 11/21/2014 4:34:28 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: EEGator

It works for me.

:)


123 posted on 11/21/2014 4:34:44 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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To: Salamander

See ‘80s metal band singer’...Rob Halford.


124 posted on 11/21/2014 4:35:15 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

And why else would I have typed it, then?

:D


125 posted on 11/21/2014 4:36:08 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

And a dozen others like him, on a train.

Now I’m grossing myself out.


126 posted on 11/21/2014 4:37:08 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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To: Salamander

New Jeopardy answer. “Things that resemble frightened turtles”...


127 posted on 11/21/2014 4:37:09 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

LMAO!


128 posted on 11/21/2014 4:37:44 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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To: Salamander

You’re a sick pup. I like that ;)


129 posted on 11/21/2014 4:37:55 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: BenLurkin

Herr Drosselmeyers Doll. Abney Park

http://youtu.be/fE0uvkYDyGY


130 posted on 11/21/2014 4:38:22 PM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Norm Lenhart

I suspect that this thread is close to exceeding its lifespan.

The mods must be napping.


131 posted on 11/21/2014 4:38:57 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

“Woof!”, she said.


132 posted on 11/21/2014 4:39:41 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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To: Chode; Salamander; Norm Lenhart
" now THERE'S something that doesn't come up in everyday conversation..."

Well, maybe not in your house.

133 posted on 11/21/2014 4:41:13 PM PST by shibumi ("Walk through the fire - Fly through the smoke")
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To: Salamander

Yup. But what else could one expect on a thread about animatronic sex dolls to begin with.

But what I want to know is that if say SOMEONE, some random person who bares no possible resemblance to anyone living or dead were to order a cybersheep....would that technically be bestiality? And would fishneta and stripper heels have any bearing on it?

I ask purely for the mental exercise of course.


134 posted on 11/21/2014 4:43:24 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Salamander
LOL...
135 posted on 11/21/2014 4:43:31 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: shibumi
damn, rough crowd... 8^)
136 posted on 11/21/2014 4:45:38 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Junk Silver

I wonder if the memory card will be optional for the fembots?


137 posted on 11/21/2014 4:49:04 PM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: Lazamataz

Over a hundred posts and noone thought to ping laz?


138 posted on 11/21/2014 4:51:02 PM PST by zeugma (The act of observing disturbs the observed.)
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To: Delta Dawn

It’s an expensive and hard to upgrade add on option for the Blonde models. The brunettes come standard with it and the Redheads just kill you and at powerup so it doesn’t matter anyway. ;)


139 posted on 11/21/2014 4:52:00 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

At my age, HARD porn is difficult to come by...


140 posted on 11/21/2014 4:52:26 PM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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