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The hyper-real robots that will replace receptionists, pop stars... and even sex dolls: Unnervingly
dailymail.co.uk ^

Posted on 11/21/2014 2:23:17 PM PST by BenLurkin

Chillingly life-like robots are causing a storm in Japan – where their creators are about to launch them as actresses, full-size mechanical copies for pop idol fans, and clones of the dearly departed.

There is even talk that the naturalistic, even engaging, she-droids may be taken up as men as partners in the not-too-distant future.

Android Asuna was a star attraction at Tokyo Designers’ Week showcase earlier this month and she is one of a series of geminoids, as their inventor dubs them, that are ripe for commercialisation say their creator robotics professor Hiroshi Ishiguro.

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A fully independent version of the geminoid is expected in 10 years using all the above technologies to make her virtually indistinguishable from humans says Mr. Takeshi Mita, CEO of A-Lab in Tokyo, the company working with Prof. Ishiguro to make Asuna and her kind commercial.

'We already have 20 year's experience making androids in the lab. So in 10 years we will marry AI and life like geminoids in perfection,' he told MailOnline.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: EEGator; KC_Lion; Darksheare

ever seen “Natural City”?

There are scenes of the robot girl factory, these girls come with expiration dates when they need to be replaced.

Some try to not be replaced.


21 posted on 11/21/2014 2:46:24 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: shibumi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlHrvQ7D5OU


22 posted on 11/21/2014 2:46:40 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

or Animaniacs


23 posted on 11/21/2014 2:47:28 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: BenLurkin
I can't see paying umpteen thousands of dollars to replace a perfectly usable inflatable doll.

In a purely hypothetical sense, of course.

24 posted on 11/21/2014 2:47:45 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Army Air Corps

25 posted on 11/21/2014 2:48:51 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: BenLurkin; Larry Lucido; F15Eagle

26 posted on 11/21/2014 2:50:00 PM PST by Gamecock (USA, Ret. 27 years.)
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To: GeronL

Well, you get complete insanity either way so what the hell ;)


27 posted on 11/21/2014 2:50:53 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Norm Lenhart

Early in the 21st century THE TYRELL CORPORATION advanced Robot evolution into the NEXUS phase - a being virtually identical to a human - known as a Replicant.

The Nexus 6 Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them.


28 posted on 11/21/2014 2:52:00 PM PST by Junk Silver
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To: catnipman

When it’s your time to go, it’s your time to go. And there are worse ways to go...


29 posted on 11/21/2014 2:52:35 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Sawdring
Like tears in the rain.
30 posted on 11/21/2014 2:52:40 PM PST by Rocko
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To: BigEdLB

31 posted on 11/21/2014 2:54:10 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: GeronL

No, is it good?


32 posted on 11/21/2014 2:54:44 PM PST by EEGator
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To: EEGator

For the love of God, DO NOT click the link in the article to the “Japanese toy company”.

What has been seen can never be unseen.


33 posted on 11/21/2014 2:58:52 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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To: Billthedrill
I can't see paying umpteen thousands of dollars to replace a perfectly usable inflatable doll. In a purely hypothetical sense, of course.

Says a guy who calls himself 'Billthedrill'..... HAHAHAHAHA! Ok, Shawna, stop it. Get yer mind out the gutter....
34 posted on 11/21/2014 2:59:05 PM PST by Mama Shawna
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To: Norm Lenhart

:D


35 posted on 11/21/2014 2:59:22 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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To: BenLurkin

Sherry Jackson in Star Trek. What was her name?

Andrea I think.


36 posted on 11/21/2014 3:00:54 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Oberon

In spite of Ford’s mind-numbing flat affect delivery, it was a good movie.

Heavy, even.


37 posted on 11/21/2014 3:01:44 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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To: EEGator

I only saw the first 10 minutes, it looked like good quality scifi to me


38 posted on 11/21/2014 3:01:48 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: BenLurkin

Cherry 2000.


39 posted on 11/21/2014 3:02:19 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: shibumi

Well, this is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0E0ynyIUsg

I need to get this thread outta my head.


40 posted on 11/21/2014 3:03:16 PM PST by Salamander (My soul's on fire.)
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