Video: She's A Robot?

WESH 2 Orlando ^ | 10/14/2010

[greatdefender]

Japanese researchers have developed an android that mimics human expressions. Eventually, it could be used as a companion for disabled children or the elderly.

[a fool in paradise]

Japanese researchers have developed an android that mimics human expressions.

[GraceG]

[ Yeah I thought about that myself.

Seems kind of degrading to dump a robot companion on someone because they aren’t worthy of human kindness. I suppose it would be OK as a helper but no more. ]

If it could be programmed to clean it could become very popular for housewives. Of just people who would like maid.....

[OneWingedShark]

>“Eventually, it could be used as a companion for disabled children or the elderly.”
>
>Right, because those subhuman groups don’t deserve ACTUAL human companionship.
>
>Sigh...

I was thinking more along the lines of Stephen Hawking types as a sort of translator for public-speaking...

[Vendome]

Only if it set still long enough. LOL

[alancarp]

"Right, because those subhuman groups don’t deserve ACTUAL human companionship."

Bingo. The rest of society can't be bothered from anything distracting themselves from... themselves.

[a fool in paradise]

Friends don't let friends date Cylons. You can get electrocuted doing that.

I knew I girl who was a cyborg. She was an electrocutie!

[a fool in paradise]

I don’t want a robot roommate. Might report me to the ASPCE when I smack my tv set to improve the picture.

[cripplecreek]

LOL Electro gonorrhea, the noisy killer.

[PGR88]

Eventually, it could be used as a companion for disabled children or the elderly

Yeah, right! Corporate Japan is spending billions in robotics because they want to capture the "disabled children companion" market. Too funny! Knowing the Japanese, it will first be used for SEX, then for every other use can imagine.

You gotta hand it to them though - Japanese women don't want to reproduce, and Japanese haven't been suckered into the myth of importing poor Africans and Pakistanis for "labor," so what do they do? Just manufacture androids!

[stormer]

[GonzoGOP]

Behind every great space explorer there is a woman, driving him farther and farther into deep space.

[hoagy62]

“Kirk! Please! It’s INHUMAN!!!”

[GonzoGOP]

Behind every great space explorer there is a woman, driving him farther and farther into deep space.

[TheThirdRuffian]

“Eventually, it could be used as a companion for disabled children or the elderly.”

It’s Japan; they’ll be sexbots.

[GraceG]

[ “Eventually, it could be used as a companion for disabled children or the elderly.”

It’s Japan; they’ll be sexbots. ]

It’s Japan; they’ll be teenage looking sexbots.

Fixed that for ya....

[GonzoGOP]

You gotta hand it to them though - Japanese women don't want to reproduce, and Japanese haven't been suckered into the myth of importing poor Africans and Pakistanis for "labor," so what do they do? Just manufacture androids!

Considering the gap in male to female population in China due to the one child policy this could be a big time export.

[WellyP]

Settings automatically change every 28 days!

[Spike Knotts]

I’d bet more on a one time export. China would get it and steal the design. A shoddily constructed Chinese sexbot should be quite a sight. Perhaps Walmart will add an adults only backroom...they can have red light specials.

I can’t wait to see what kind of virus some sick mind can dream up for these fully mobile computers. Let’s hope that they burn Asimov’s “3 Laws for Robots” on mask ROM.

[trad_anglican]

Eventually, it could be used as a companion for disabled children or the elderly.

Because nothing can go worng.

[jonrick46]

uh huh.