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 ...
ever seen “Natural City”?
There are scenes of the robot girl factory, these girls come with expiration dates when they need to be replaced.
Some try to not be replaced.
or Animaniacs
In a purely hypothetical sense, of course.
Well, you get complete insanity either way so what the hell ;)
Early in the 21st century THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced Robot evolution into the NEXUS phase - a being virtually identical to a human - known as a Replicant.
The Nexus 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them.
When it’s your time to go, it’s your time to go. And there are worse ways to go...
No, is it good?
For the love of God, DO NOT click the link in the article to the “Japanese toy company”.
What has been seen can never be unseen.
:D
Sherry Jackson in Star Trek. What was her name?
Andrea I think.
In spite of Ford’s mind-numbing flat affect delivery, it was a good movie.
Heavy, even.
I only saw the first 10 minutes, it looked like good quality scifi to me
Cherry 2000.
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