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Chick robots

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Fritz_Brown

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Here is the newest robot tech out of Japan: a girl "android". (I don't think the BBC knows WTH an android is. :rolleyes: ) It has silicone skin, is powered by an air compressor (no fusion babes here, yet), can only (at present) move its upper body, and evidently fools some people into thinking she is real (these people need dates...).

To start everyone off, comments from a news aggregation site:
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  • Progress. Now you can put one in your Prius and drive in the High Occupancy Lanes.</font>
  • Q1's inventor appeared very excited during the successful testing phase and was heard to remark: "This is going to be the best Prom...EVER!"</font>
  • Candy is dandy, but 10W-40 is naughty...</font>
  • This is great. Of course, someone will ruin a good thing by teaching it how to speak.</font>
And, the creator himself says, "When a robot looks too much like the real thing, it's creepy."

Don't know how robotic it really is. You know, lifting up cars, calculating pi to any ungodly decimal place, etc. Where does this put us on the TL scale?
 
Another commenter (elsewhere):
One thing that comes to mind is this; if such a robot ever comes to market (say to serve sushi), what happens when Windows crashes and the "poor girl" starts writhing on the floor screaming "press control alt delete to reboot! Press control alt delete to reboot!".
 
Fooling humans for a short while is not hard.
Some want to be fooled so they will work harder at disbelieving she is not human.

The better her programing the easier it will become to interact for extended periods while believing whatever people want to believe.
 
Well, in the pictures, she looks painted. But I suppose I'd have to go see - at Professor Ishiguru's expense!

I'd buy one, if it came in TX style and looked like it had real flesh. Plus was able to act like a "real" human.
 
Originally posted by IRIS Inquisitor #68:
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Where does this put us on the TL scale?
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Neanderthal? </font>[/QUOTE]no, ultra-geek. neanderthals would just grab real ones off the street.
 
Uh huh huh huh huh huh huh..

(Ok, my Beavis and Butthead moment is over)

Interesting idea, if somewhat creepy. There go drive-up tellers and fast-food people. You only see them from the waist up. No more secretaries, if they can get it to talk realistically. I like the idea that it learned to move from watching real people move. I wonder what would happen if it watched the Playboy Channel...

Dameon
 
Android has its origins in "An automaton figure of a human being" and has been used several different ways. <shrugs> FWIW this is the 2nd such robot, the first was of a five year old girl, this one's of a woman.

My first thought was a woman design (and in general female designs) was chosen to more easily test human reaction to it. A male version might be psycologically easier to dismiss as "not right" (more intimidating or antagonistic?). Just a guess.

On a similar note I stumbled across this story while looking for another version of the above story: Med students set to train on superdummies.

Chick robots would be IMO be instead more like all this on a superdeluxe Realdoll. :rolleyes:
 
Of what possible use would robotic baby chickens be? (haha)

Seriously, this is pretty wild, and I just saw this post after reposting the link in Random Static.

I'll take four with guns, please!
 
HMMMmmm...Learning by watching people move

Ok. Let her watch some xxx movies :eek:
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(said in best Hagrid voice..."I should'nt ha said that")
 
Eva is positively freaky having read the Russian SF classic Professor Dowell's Head, not too long ago.

Now, if that tale could be updated with pseudotronics like this that would make an interesting film.
 
Here's a different kind of robot. This one just catches balls. The write-up makes it sound particularly incredible. Then, you watch the video.....

It's still pretty good that it has the reflexes to flex it's fingers around a ball moving toward it. But, I wouldn't say it can "catch" yet. Heh, my boy could catch balls dropped directly into his hand by the time he was half a year old. What I want to see is it catch a thrown ball - that isn't programmed to land directly in its "palm"!

Though, combine this with the robot at the top of this thread, and you could have a really nice back-scratcher!
 
You know, I read the title of this thread and I was thinking: "What, a robot that automatically spouts off christian fundamentalist hate drivel?"

Regards,

Tobias
 
Originally posted by Tobias:
You know, I read the title of this thread and I was thinking: "What, a robot that automatically spouts off christian fundamentalist hate drivel?"

Regards,

Tobias
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Ummm, Tobias, should that be over on the Political Forum? :confused:
 
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