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Just this week, NASA and General Motors announced that they'll work together to send a human-like robot to the international space station.

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
I just vomited a little, but hold on, let me make sure part of my soul didn't just die.

...It's sticky in here. I'm having trouble finding anything. This might be alarming if I cared.

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
You know, if we actually treated robots well, like the children they actually are to us, maybe we wouldn't have to worry about the inevitable overthrow. It's always bothered me, whenever I see sci-fi robots in subservient positions or being mistreated.

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I think they're a bit late on the draw, honestly.
Dunno about the sexbot thing, but behaviorally and conversationally, the Actroid DER2 is in a class of her own.

Of course, most human-like robot development is still stuck in Uncanny Valley, and it has a ways to go...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

But I kid you not, the very first time I saw a clip of Actroid here, I happened to be munching on a small plate of brownies and my *first instinct* about 20-30 seconds into the clip, was to offer her one.

The whole idea of sexbots gives me the wiggies cause I do have a prudish streak, but then I thought about the badly disabled or horribly disfigured...

That and I am pretty sure that while maybe less willing to admit it, most of us have some "could it possibly be worse than..." stories we'd never dare share too, don't we ?

Anyhows, the folks down at Sanrio (and yes, Actroid is made by the same folks that make Hello Kitty) deserve some serious cred in this biz for making a robot that manages to provoke an "awww.." reaction rather than "wtf?!".

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Originally posted by Bytemite:
Looks like a character from one of those recent voice dubbed Japanese RPGs. Specifically looks a little like Yuna from FFX and the chickie from FFXII.

Nah, it's not the looks that creep me out, it's the mechanics of the, yeah.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Byte, you're forgetting one important thing: Most of the advances in robotics are coming from MEN. And men, at their most basic, have the ethics and morality of a dog: If we can't eat it or fuck it, then piss on it!

I think you'll find that when it comes to innovation, where men are concerned, most of the really remarkable stuff revolves around sex and war. Shows where the priorities of men are, huh? Think about it: We could focus our collective energy on a cure for cancer, or on a pill that gives a man a hard-on. Which one do we now have available to us?

I rest my case.

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Originally posted by Bytemite:

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Originally posted by Niki2:
So what kind of robot(s) would YOU wish were real, or are glad are not real? Or which of the ten would you wish were real, or are grateful they're not?

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