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 ...
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.”
Ghost in the Shell fans take note.
Sheeeeeepppppp......
Er...nevermind.
Uh-huh.
Think for a moment about the last time you had to call a company to try to get an answer to a simple problem that a human could solve in about two minutes. Now think about how long you spent going through the phone tree picking options that were just not quite what you wanted and getting more and more frustrated.
Now imagine that is your sex doll.
Have fun!
(The link is NOT to the White Zombie Song.)
“Very good, Pris. Now show him why.”
Almost rather talk to a robot than one of HP’s turkey talking Indian tech desk types. never could get an answer through all that gobbling.
China has a few hundred million guys with no where to go. I’m thinking it won’t be long before basic animitronic sex doll issues will be solved once they hit the market.
Remember, porn basically built the internet and broadband. (drove the market far faster than regular business/military/social issues would have on their own).
‘And my China doll down in old Hong Kong waits for my return...’
What is that qoute from?
The bad news is that it looks like a Roomba.
People are easily replaced by robots? Maybe they should have found a different line of work?
Wait until the NAACP starts organizing for android/gynoid ‘rights’ over slavery and the “Animatrix” comes to pass.
Mudd Industries presents...
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