Will this help? It is the first mock-up of the Barbara Striesand 3000
... and you are welcome.
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 ...
If it can't go out and earn money, it will be a total flop.
I will have to deal with an android who will have mood swings and be 3 or 4 times my strength?
I think I can make my own sammich.
Just another adolescent wet dream made real - for a price.
But the acquisition cost is only the down payment....
These “chrome steel and sex appeal” manikins simply short-circuit the whole reproductive aspect of hedonistic behavior.
Kraftwerk - Die Roboter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHaZ3UL2oHk
Phased Plasma rifle in the 40 Watt range. No problem.
/assumes fetal position under sofa
We will all become robot repairmen.
Will this help? It is the first mock-up of the Barbara Striesand 3000
... and you are welcome.
Careful...thats where the NSA hides the camera...
Hated “Cars”, loved that.
One of my favorite ‘bad movies’ is “Times Square”.
Tim Curry and killer soundtrack.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhDJZm_HyXY
That and “The Warriors” is a good night of flicks.
Can these things cook too?
Where's Robert Smith of The Cure, when you need him?
Woops.
I dare not mention Patti without pinging Shibumi
I love science fiction but have not read any of Dick’s books. Maybe I will have to put one of his next on the list.
Cue up “Electric Barbarella” by Duran Duran...
I plug you in
Dim the lights, Electric Barbarella
your perfect skin
plastic kiss, electric barbarella
try to resist
then we touch, illuminate and tranquilize...
And how could we forget...Frank Zappa - Sy borg”! Who looks like a mechanical pig with marital aids stuck all over it.
PS: Warren just bought one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvnO3On4_fo
Language warning for the Zappa impaired.
Westworld, where nothing can possibly go wrong.....go wrong.....go wrong.....
““chrome steel and sex appeal”
Frankly, I thought that is why we have Harley Davidson.
:)
[nobody’s mentioned Giger or Hajime Sorayama, yet]
Nah, We have Harley Davidsons for the poor unfortunates that are too unskilled to handle real motorcycles.
WHAT?????? ;)
Lol!!!
Tech support....Sir, can you tell me what the problem is?
Uhm....uhm...errrr....uhm...*click*
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