Japanese eliminate need for women!!!
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Japanese develop 'female' android[/b]By David Whitehouse Science editor, BBC News website Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised - a "female" android called Repliee Q1. She has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow her to turn and react in a human-like manner. She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a human. She even appears to breathe. Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University says one day robots could fool us into believing they are human. Repliee Q1 is not like any robot you will have seen before, at least outside of science-fiction movies. She is designed to look human and although she can only sit at present, she has 31 actuators in her upper body, powered by a nearby air compressor, programmed to allow her to move like a human. "I have developed many robots before," Repliee Q1's designer, Professor Ishiguro, told the BBC News website, "but I soon realised the importance of its appearance. A human-like appearance gives a robot a strong feeling of presence." Designed to look human Before Repliee Q1, Professor Ishiguro developed Repliee R1 which had the appearance of a five-year-old Japanese girl. Its head could move in nine directions and it could gesture with its arm. Four high-sensitivity tactile sensors were placed under the skin of its left arm that made the android react differently to differing pressures. The follow-up has the appearance of a Japanese woman. To program her motion, a computer analysed the motions of a human and used them as a template for the way Repliee Q1 moves. She can be designed to follow the movement of a human wearing motion sensors or to act independently. "Repliee Q1 can interact with people. It can respond to people touching it. It's very satisfying, although we obviously have a long way to go yet." Professor Ishiguro believes that it may prove possible to build an android that could pass for a human, if only for a brief period. "An android could get away with it for a short time, 5-10 seconds. However, if we carefully select the situation, we could extend that, to perhaps 10 minutes," he said. "More importantly, we have found that people forget she is an android while interacting with her. Consciously, it is easy to see that she is an android, but unconsciously, we react to the android as if she were a woman." 
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where can I order one for the "Pleasure Dome"???
Hot or NOT??!
[color:white]I'd tap [/color]
Sayin...
uhhh....
soon come, soon come
peace.
And don't even get me started on how any one of our moms can kick any robots' ass.
If robots have ass.
He's cute in a nerdy sort of way, but kinda intense-looking in a crazed stalker kind of way. Forehead is a bit too ready for rappelling, too. Plus I'm not sure about dudes who have to build a girlfriend; how much time would he have for me?
NOT.
DAMN! good idea... off to the expo I shall go!
For real, she had a nice set of titties... definitley not pechapai, like 90% of japanese women...
peace.
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro of Osaka University:
"I'm a big fan of Mary Jane Girls and Vanity 6 handwear."
I thought you were talking about her lack of "kung-fu grip".