[StuLongIsland]

I think they can reprogam this equipment and use it for national security purposes at the airport. Recently there was talk about people at airport security physically checking people, and touching in appropriately. Perhaps if a robot did the checking in a closed booth without a human directly looking at the physical aspect of the human, but only a monotor seeing possible contraband, it would make things more "proper", less a hassle.

Just a thought when I read this.

[RichInOC]

Dear God, don't let Bubba find out about this.

[johniegrad]

"Just because you’re located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan or even Botswana, it doesn’t mean you can’t have a sophisticated diagnostic or therapeutic procedure,"

Does the Mitten look down on the Yoopers or what?

[NonValueAdded]

OMG, do you realize the potential this has for an x-rated virtual reality experience? I claim copyright of the idea, right here, right now by virtue of the timestamp of this posting. Woo hoo!

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Is remote groping like remote viewing?

[Asphalt]

good idea

[Tennessee_Bob]

Oh, sure, a robot hand can get away with it, but try it in person and they start screaming about police, and restraining orders and such....

Not that that's happened to me, mind you....a friend of mine...yeah...it happened to a friend of mine.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I laughed out loud when I started reading your post, but by the end I realized you were serious and you may have a good idea there!

I couldn't help thinking while reading this that this thread is going to get all kinds of "interesting" replies.

[Phantom Lord]

Here is a picture of the robot...

[vikingd00d]

This, along with teledildonics, will revolutionize the online porn industry. Ain't technology wonderful! :)

[bmwcyle]

Just hold still dear.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

They have found a way to stop you from volunteering to work as a breast cancer screener.

[linkinpunk]

I have always said that Robots will eventually take all of the good jobs.

[LizardQueen]

Ewww... the "Electro-Grope" system...

There's no way that this could substitute for an experienced doctors exam (or a thorough exam by the owner of the breast). Robots don't get that intuitive flash that tells someone something is wrong even when it feels "sort of okay".

LQ

[Fierce Allegiance]

Ping

Oh, to become a robot!

[NathanBookman]

I think that robot was previously used in a Tropicana juice processing plant. Hopefully there is a dial on it to adjust the "squeeze force".

[Jonah Hex]

As a man, I find this quite disturbing. Perhaps it's because I can see the day coming when they use such an apparatus for prostate exams.

"Open the pod bay doors, HAL."

[Regulator]

Perhaps if a robot did the checking in a closed booth without a human directly looking at the physical aspect of the human, but only a monotor seeing possible contraband, it would make things more "proper", less a hassle

Ah yes, mechanizing the police state.

So much more palatable.

So when the robot malfunctions and crushes some woman's breast, a scene that could be an outtake from Robocop, will everyone just shrug and say, "that's the way it is?"

Americans live in a police state now because the entire planet uses us for a goddamn doormat. Restrict mass movement into this country - especially from third world, terror supporting countries - and this crap will end.

You're probably too young to remember, but there actually was a time in this country when you could get on an airplane without first showing your ID to an Ethiopian, then being searched by legal aliens (allegedly) from the Phillipines (a true story, which happened to me the other day at Dulles).

You couldn't have gotten anyone to believe it would come to this in 1965. It would have sounded like bad science fiction.

[ken5050]

You forgot the best news..the machine runs on two "AA" batteries..(g)

[MEGoody]

Uh, I don't plan on being first in line for this one.

[CheneyChick]

The robotic grasper

DANG - this thing sounds scary. What if it has a short and it clamps down too hard? And how do you slap it?