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

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[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.

[Secret Agent Man]

so you were aware that’s where Duran Duran got their name from... :-)

i’m pretty sure no other group ever picked their name after a movie character.

[Norm Lenhart]

I think Alfred said it best:

“Alfred Pennyworth: Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”

No guts, no glory ;)

[Norm Lenhart]

Liberal spleen.

[Salamander]

Oh, yeah.

What about “New Riders Of The Purple Sage”?

Pretty sure that came from the flick, if not a character.

Steely Dan was not technically a character in the book, per se.

:)

[Secret Agent Man]

i’m not familiar with that. have to check it out.

[Salamander]

“Naked Lunch”

You were warned.

:)

[Blue Collar Christian]

LOL!

[Darksheare]

Terrible B movie: Cherry 2000.

[Sirius Lee]

[Salamander]

Yes, it is.

:)

[Chode]

OMG...

[Chode]

#171, you were saying?

[KC_Lion]

Ummm... Now THAT can go into some unpleasant Places...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TR4ufW_V_o

[Norm Lenhart]

HOW could you go there?...without first going here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SgND89KUWE

[Salamander]

I’ve seen that so many times.

:)

[Darksheare]

Melanie Griffith and her bizarre speech patterns...

[tophat9000]

So KY or WD?

[shibumi]

[Darksheare]

5w 40 and astroglide mix.
Maybe hypoid oil.
Or 50 weight gear lube.

[Darksheare]

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