There’s a video link on the page, and while I wouldn’t describe her movements as “lifelike” I will say, that I could easily develop a case of metalfever for a fembot like her.
Yes, but where are the breast-implanted killing spikes?
That’s what I want to know.
Well, we DO need new leaders for the Amazonians.
THIS PLEASES FEMPUTER!
DEATH by SNOO-SNOO!
Yes!
What kind of services exactly?
Fry in Futurama:
Looking for more info, I found this interesting page:
http://www.androidworld.com/prod01.htm
One concern I got from this page: very few American entries, and even the few appear to be behind many of the examples from Japan, Korea, China and even the Russian one!
I hope to God I’m viewing the wrong product here; either that, or else a shocking number of people consider waxy-looking, zombified 14-year-olds to be the *ne plus ultra * of sexy. For crying out loud, people, she’s undead *and * underaged! She looks like she was embalmed by Lenin’s mortician! What are you all thinking?!
On the other hand, I am immature enough to be hilariated by the Kokoro website and its moderately fractured English translations:
Its Actroid DER page informs us helpfully:
The Actroid, we are informed, is:
Yeah, I’ll just bet it is, you deves.
Somehow I suspect these descriptions are indistinguishable from over 85% of all Japanese personal ads. “Lonely salaryman seeks active, natural yet charming booth bunny with smooth gestures and news hooks, to share varieties of costumes and cutting-edge technology. Must be elegant, feminine, and lively at all times.”
Despite all this, ultimately any company that builds robotic dinosaurs and gigantic insects is okay in my book. Go, Kokoro! Lift high the proud lamp of Japan’s national destiny as the world leader in robotic schoolgirl technology.
Me want SNOO-SNOO!
Mount a RealDoll on the armature and you got yer fembot, alrighty.
Pretty good, but if they really want to make her desirable as a femmebot then she shouldn’t talk so much.
I, for one, welcome our Fembot overlords…If they do the dishes.
That’s actually pretty freaky. Except for the slight jerkiness of her movements, I don’t think I would have called her a “robot” while watching that video unless I already knew that’s what it was.
They’ve got a lot of work to do on facial expressions before she can pass for real, but she’s definitely on this side of the uncanny valley. It’ll be interesting to see the next generation.
They totally bypassed the Uncanny Valley and plunged straight into Weird-Ass Trench. That’s just my opinion, of course… I don’t presume to judge the freakish lusts of others. But Gott in himmel, dude; if you’re going to take the trouble to construct a highly sophisticated robot that mimics the female form, why on Earth would you model it on the neighbor girl that your sister-in-law hires to babysit? That thing is unquestionably cyber-jail bait.
And remember… Sanrio is the firm behind Hello Kitty… which just adds that additional frisson of disturbance.