Just waiting for Robot Arm to make his customary “Mom?” post.
See? We notice.
Just waiting for Robot Arm to make his customary “Mom?” post.
See? We notice.
True, that. It’s obviously a work in progress
Not enough fiber optics with their serial ports.
Too lazy to go find a link but I was watching her awkward stride and trying to picture her in typical runway ‘shoes’.
We need to [del]mate[/del] combine this android (gynoid?) with that fast robotic hand technology from the other thread.
She has a big butt.
OTOH, it demonstrates a greater emotional range than some of the real ones.
This video is longer and shows off some of the robot’s other movements.
This is why the Japanese aren’t likely to take over the world. They spend inappropriately.
The least useful function for a robot is as a fashion model. Fashion is sold through saucy expressions and graceful movements. Neither of which is likely to be among the first thousand or so human traits that anthropomorphic robots acquire.
Holy sh*t, I can’t decide if it’s a Replicant or a Cylon. :eek:
Tripler
Either way, we need to kill it.
Luddite!
[Bela Lugosi]
“You cannot kill that which is not alive! MWHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
[/Bela Lugosi]
Hmmm…
They should have put some knuckles in her fingers, cause it looks like she is perpetually ready to deliver a knife-hand karate strike.
Also, she couldn’t even give me a reach-around. What good is a super model who can’t even give a hand job.
On the plus side, with further devlopment they are well on their way to blow job capability.
Naw, I’m serious guys! Imagine a legion of these things carrying your groceries home from the store for you–they’re so damn slow they’d take forever to cross the street. The automatons are so creepy, everywhere you’d turn, something would be slowly step. . . step. . .stepping to find you. And just when you turned your back, four of 'em would gang up on you and turn you into the next “Janet Leigh in the shower”. Og help you if they grab you–you can’t break free, because they’re strong, and they’re made of metal.
Tripler
Seriously man, they’re mass-produced freaky.
That’s not Astrogirl!
Soon this company will buy the company that makes Real Doll and we women will be obsolete.
Probably not.
I can see it now , the Realgirl corp. Adds a new line to their already lifelike products ,combining the best of both products.
Batteries, they are not just for women anymore.
Declan
One (slightly awkward) step closer to Cherry 2000.
As for jury-rigging… I’m guessing you’re not familiar with Realdolls? Those plus that robot is a match made in… well… certain fervid imaginations. (And no, I’m not linking them – google at your own risk – not even slightly SFW).
ETA: Bah, beaten to it by Mighty_Girl
And when they make a Realdoll Droid with interactive AI that simulates a Japanese Highschool Girl, uniform included, then the nerd/geek gene will be doomed to get bred out of the population ;):D:p (Heck, in Japan one of their local makers of the equivalent of Realdolls already makes “Schoolgirl” models)
Actually, Nunzio, the way I see it is that if humanoid robots will be driven towards lifelike movements, it will not be for the sake of lifelike droids itself, but as a collateral result of progress in the development of lifelike prosthetics for people who lose limbs or parts of their faces and can’t get transplants. Once you have THAT (lifelike motion mechanics) with interactive AI (to provide a “personality”) AND a sturdy, low-maintenance RealDoll, someone will combine them. (And really, if someone can make the Realdoll reasonably animated, it’ll make a bundle. Right now one thing working against Realdolls is that many people get an uncomfortable necrophilic vibe from them.) Just don’t hook up with the one that looks like a punk Darryl Hannah
I can imagine there would be a great interest in lifelike humanoid androids for use as models, lovedroids, and undercover decoys (both for the law and for the outlaws). Just about any other function one can think of being given to droids can be achieved sooner and more economically by the robot being just a box of electronics with manipulator arms and a means of locomotion.
And don’t knock Tripler – he **has **to think of these things because he may be the one calling in the airstrikes on the Machines if it comes to it. This gives him yet another threat scenario to worry about…
The first one of these that can carry a 800 pound human around will be a huge selling point. Every major hospital will require at least one. They can go to the house after the fire department cuts out the wall and carry the person to the hospital directly to the special patient room next to the morgue.