Could you fall in love with this robot?

CNBC.COM ^ | 03/16/2016 | Harriet Taylor

[CrazyIvan]

We already have men falling in love with women because of their synthetic parts. It’s just a matter of what percent is real

[DesertRhino]

all good fun.

[Jamestown1630]

One of the best old Twilight Zone episodes:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734656/

[ClearCase_guy]

“Solana only $5,322.00”

Thats amazingly cheap

There's an amusing scene in the "Jack Reacher" movie with Tom Cruise when a girl tries to pick up Tom and Tom isn't interested.

"I can't afford you, Sandy."
"I'm not a hooker!"
"Oh, well, then I really can't afford you."
" I am NOT a hooker!"
"What I meant was, the least expensive girls are the ones you pay for."
"He called me a hooker!!"
"Well, a hooker would get the joke."

[Jamestown1630]

My husband and I saw a piece about the new artificial reality headsets on TV tonight; we wondered if eventually things like reading books, going camping, playing a game of (real) softball, riding a bike, will be things only a few kids do anymore.

20 years ago, on weekends and after school, all the kids were outside on their bikes, playing ball, or just running around. Now you barely see a kid outside, around here.

-JT

[PhilDragoo]

All have hearts of Colonel Rosa Klebb.

[TigersEye]

Another advantage to androids is they wouldn’t have extreme overreactions to entirely benign jokes. Even if they didn’t get them. LOL

[Secret Agent Man]

Better name - Asole.

Sounds great and play on words, one without a sole.

[PIF]

LOL

[MuttTheHoople]

Laz? Laz?

[TigersEye]

I guess you could always plug in the Bitchy program or the Ballistic Hysteria program if you were missing that sort of thing.

Or you could log on to FR! ;^)

[bigbob]

I’ve heard of morning wood but that would be a whole nuther thing!

[Chode]

I Need A Unit To Sample And Hold

[Ken H]

Isn’t sex with an inanimate object just another form of masturbation?

We won't know until we get data on vision loss.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

LOL!

[rickomatic]

Take a tree to bed with you tonight -— you never know what romance might blossom ...

You would, at least, be guaranteed to wake up with morning wood.....

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Of course. :)

But the human race in general is beginning to worry me a bit.

I was alone but I knew what I was missing and while I was not actively looking I knew it was possible. (I thought I was lousy relationships. Turned out I was just trying with the wrong person.)

But now it seems that people don't even want another person to share life with.

And they seem to swing wildly between those who stay with people who abuse them to people walk away from anything short of perfection.

[Fightin Whitey]

If they mass produce these will dating habits change?????

Dates will be a lot cheaper.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

I'm going to open up a can of worms and say a good part of it has to do with the public school system.

When I was a kid homework in elementary school was unheard of beyond a bit of reading. Now an hour is normal. An hour travel to school and an hour back is normal.

They have no recess or lunch hour to spend time making friends.

They are encouraged by the school not to have friends because it is wrong to like one person more then another.

By the time they get through with every thing they must do to get an education and have dinner it is dark and they are tired.

Not to mention that parents will not allow their kids out of their sight to actually do stuff.

The kids I know that do stuff are home schooled. Far from being isolated they are far more socialized because they have the time.

[BenLurkin]

I'll take this Cylon, thank you: