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.
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Naked Lunch. And you read that? I picked up a copy once myself and found it mostly unreadable. William S Burroughs had to be about the weirdest of the queer junkie beatniks, right up there with Allen Ginsberg.
I suspect that Burroughs may have influenced Hunter S Thompson:
http://www.burroughs100.com/features/when-hunter-s-thompson-visited-william-s-burroughs
Everyone knows that the perfect woman is 3'4" tall and has a flat head so you have a place to set your beer...
I thought astroglide was brand of tranny fluid?
Well, some trannys use it.
*eyes shift left and right*
Heinlein is awesome. His “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress” is one of my favorite books.
I really like the Professor.
Just have this playing in the background to make the whole experience more surreal.
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