# Rise of the Machines: Sexy Fembot **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495 "2006-10-22T23:38:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/1 "2006-10-22T23:38:37Z")
[Well, it looks like it’s just about over for us. As soon as they properly “outfit” this model, ladies, it’ll be up to you to figure out how to propagate the species without us men.](http://www.pinktentacle.com/2006/10/actroid-der2-fembot-loves-hello-kitty/) > [@](#): > > Kokoro, a Sanrio Group company specializing in the design and manufacture of robots, unveiled its new Actroid DER2 feminine guide robot at Sanrio headquarters in Tokyo on October 4. > > Actroid DER2 is an upgraded version of Kokoro’s previous fembot, Actroid DER, who has made quite a name for herself by providing services at a number of events, including the 2005 World Expo. Compared to the previous model, DER2 has thinner arms and a wider repertoire of expressions. The smoothness of her movement has also been improved, making it now even more likely for the uninitiated to confuse her with an actual human being. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/2 "2006-10-23T00:04:23Z")
Yes, but where are the breast-implanted killing spikes? That’s what I want to know. ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/3 "2006-10-23T01:18:35Z")
Well, we DO need new leaders for the Amazonians. THIS PLEASES FEMPUTER! ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/4 "2006-10-23T01:26:07Z")
[QUOTE=Leaper] Well, we DO need new leaders for the Amazonians. THIS PLEASES FEMPUTER! [/QUOTE] DEATH by SNOO-SNOO! ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/5 "2006-10-23T01:33:15Z")
[QUOTE=Nic2004] DEATH by SNOO-SNOO! [/QUOTE] Yes! ---
**Author:** ![Chez\_Guevara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@Chez\_Guevara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chez_Guevara)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/6 "2006-10-23T01:34:55Z")
> [@](#): > > …Actroid DER, who has made quite a name for herself by providing services at a number of events, including the 2005 World Expo. What kind of services exactly? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/7 "2006-10-23T02:28:02Z")
[QUOTE=Nic2004] DEATH by SNOO-SNOO! [/QUOTE] Fry in Futurama: > [@](#): > > I never thought it would end this way. But I’d always really hoped.. Looking for more info, I found this interesting page: > **[World's greatest android projects](https://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! ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/8 "2006-10-23T03:27:59Z")
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](http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/actroid_der2.jpg) 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](http://www.kokoro-dreams.co.jp/english/index.html) website and its moderately fractured English translations: > [@](#): > > Nice memory was created with shiny smiles of children who filled the event sites. Its [Actroid DER](http://www.kokoro-dreams.co.jp/english/robot/act/gallery.html) page informs us helpfully: > [@](#): > > Absolutely look like a real human! The “Actroid”, humanoid, developed with a cutting-edge technology attract you with its human look-alike appearance and astonishing high expression ability. The Actroid, we are informed, is: > [@](#): > > Elegant, feminine, and lively at all times… > High-quality robot is available at a reasonable price with varieties of costumes to choose from for more opportunities to make better use of it. Yeah, I’ll just bet it is, you deves. > [@](#): > > This robot has developed to recreate the human-like natural yet charming expressions with high functionalities retained. > Emphasizes on its own realistic presence with smooth gestures. > It has news hooks and high eye-catching effects. It can be utilized to play active part for many occasions as a chairperson with fluent narrations and booth bunny. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/9 "2006-10-23T03:40:49Z")
[QUOTE=Nic2004] DEATH by SNOO-SNOO! [/QUOTE] Me want SNOO-SNOO! ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/10 "2006-10-23T04:00:36Z")
Mount a RealDoll on the armature and you got yer fembot, alrighty. ---
**Author:** ![Spidey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@Spidey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spidey)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/11 "2006-10-23T05:50:05Z")
Pretty good, but if they really want to make her desirable as a femmebot then she shouldn’t talk so much. ---
**Author:** ![Tomcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Tomcat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tomcat)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/12 "2006-10-23T15:05:04Z")
I, for one, welcome our Fembot overlords…If they do the dishes. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/13 "2006-10-23T15:21:02Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/14 "2006-10-23T15:30:25Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/15 "2006-10-23T16:24:21Z")
[QUOTE=ultrafilter] 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. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-sexy-fembot/377495/16 "2006-10-23T16:24:24Z")
And remember… Sanrio is the firm behind Hello Kitty… which just adds that additional frisson of disturbance.