Video: The feminist fembot
posted at 9:15 am on November 19, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Not really feminist, just protective of her own personal space and (non-)autonomy. Which, Gizmodo suggests, kind of defeats the whole purpose. Seven words that no one wants to hear from any robot under any circumstances: “I don’t want to do this anymore.”
I’m guessing the guy who designed it was told to create the most “lifelike” android possible and ended up taking those instructions waaay too seriously.
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Ah, rats. Can’t view videos at work.
This could be very entertaining…
Bob's Kid on November 19, 2007 at 9:29 AM
Would have been more life-like if the robot clocked the guy in the jaw for squeezing her bon-bons.
JetBoy on November 19, 2007 at 9:32 AM
cool, but really, if you could program her to do ANYTHING, why program her to slap you if you touch her breasts? Seems like a waste of programming space.
And it is fake because you could see her ‘open the door’ when there wasn’t a door there because he said she could ‘open a door’. She heard ‘open door’ and she did her skit. True AI would know that there wasn’t a door there to be opened.
It’s getting there though. A long way from Rosie of the Jetsons.
ThackerAgency on November 19, 2007 at 9:33 AM
Great…the very last thing my ego needs is for me to get shot down by a fembot. That’d just about complete the set.
James on November 19, 2007 at 9:33 AM
Damn…I sent this link to the HA tips address earlier this morning. Guess I was a bit too slow.
Well, that’s kinda what she did, if a bit feebly.
flipflop on November 19, 2007 at 9:35 AM
Hahahahahahahahahaha. How absolutely stupid. Why would you buy a robot with boobs that doesn’t like its boobs touched.
Rode Werk on November 19, 2007 at 9:38 AM
The perfect specimen for the rape fantasy that seems to be so popular with Asians (particularly the Japanese.)
Remember the “lip my stocking” scene from “Lost in Translation?”
AlexB on November 19, 2007 at 9:39 AM
Comon’, you just gotta know the designer has a duplicate at home that likes it when he touches her breast.
Coronagold on November 19, 2007 at 9:43 AM
Can you please give us back Achmed The Dead Terrorist?
Shy Guy on November 19, 2007 at 9:57 AM
Ahhhhh run, it’s the Wendy Murphy robot!
Bill C on November 19, 2007 at 9:58 AM
Math, color, nag incessantly, watch bad TV programming.
TheSitRep on November 19, 2007 at 9:59 AM
His “private” version is probably much different.
nottakingsides on November 19, 2007 at 10:00 AM
Throw a few more billion dollars at this guy. Tell him to design one that can pick fruit and vegetables, do laundry, wash dishes, and clean a house, and the our illegal aliens problems are solved.
Wuptdo on November 19, 2007 at 10:17 AM
And from Data of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Bigfoot on November 19, 2007 at 10:19 AM
Didnt’ I read not too long ago that South Korea had to institute female-only subway cars because women are basically groped with impunity in public?
This must to be related to that peculiar facet of Asian culture…
Enrique on November 19, 2007 at 10:19 AM
Dingdingding we have a winner. The rape fantasy/girl protesting thing is pretty big over there, comparatively speaking of course.
RW Wacko on November 19, 2007 at 10:25 AM
Gawd. What planet are these “inventors” from, that they think there is a need for this sort of thing?
My take: these are uber-geeks who have zero chance of having an actual woman talk to them, so they create an elaborate justification for making creepy female robots. “Honest, it will be a good receptionist! Yeah, that’s what it’s for! Pay no attention to the robotic vagina!”
Splashman on November 19, 2007 at 10:29 AM
Oh yeah: If there’s anything to admire about this project, it’s that they taught the robot to recognize badly-accented English.
Splashman on November 19, 2007 at 10:31 AM
Imagine…
Halley on November 19, 2007 at 10:35 AM
If it were an American fembot it probably would knee you in the crotch, bed your best friend, leave you, and take half your net worth with it……
Joey1974 on November 19, 2007 at 10:39 AM
She may not like the “touching” now, but what happens after she has a couple of drinks?
Always Right on November 19, 2007 at 10:40 AM
Gee. They cloned my first girlfriend. Big whoop.
psrch on November 19, 2007 at 10:46 AM
I hear the robot gets moody and irrational 3-4 days a month.
Nethicus on November 19, 2007 at 10:49 AM
Idiot! This is SO not the idea!!!
Blacklake on November 19, 2007 at 11:00 AM
Cold, nearly emotionless, expensive, and she didin’t like em touched either.
All that code, only to make my Ex-wife….ha-ha
CBarker on November 19, 2007 at 11:01 AM
ABSOLUTELY!!!
Talon on November 19, 2007 at 11:03 AM
Slap a blond wig on that thing and the Secret Service wouldn’t have to find a stand-in for Hillary.
highhopes on November 19, 2007 at 11:09 AM
Having trouble with the ladies Joey?
Zetterson on November 19, 2007 at 11:16 AM
Oooohhhhh. Zetterson, that was a nasty!
Roger Brown on November 19, 2007 at 11:45 AM
Why would you ask? did I sound scorned or bitter? lololol
Joey1974 on November 19, 2007 at 12:01 PM
Someone had to invent a woman who gets offended when groped? I’m sorry, but if Japan really had a shortage of attractive women who found being pawed by strangers to be offensive, they’d probably get alot more tourism.
morganfrost on November 19, 2007 at 12:07 PM
And yet the fembot is still more human then my ex-wife.
jdkchem on November 19, 2007 at 12:13 PM
I would not hit that. I’ll wait for version 2.0.
thegreatbeast on November 19, 2007 at 12:15 PM
Leave it to the Canuckistanians to come up with the most useless invention ever–a robot with a caustic personality that sits in a wheelchair and can tell you about the weather…
Americans don’t need a robot for that when we get all the same benefit by watching the Weather Channel and reruns of Ironside on Nick At Nite.
ScottMcC on November 19, 2007 at 12:51 PM
Larry Flynt?
James on November 19, 2007 at 1:12 PM
My favorite line: “Why did you do that for?”
Obviously not a protocol droid.
Move along… move along…
Captain Scarlet on November 19, 2007 at 1:15 PM
I can’t believe he actually says the robot feels pain. Such utter BS. It senses pressure, simple as that. It’s called a force sensing resistor, and it’s very easy to rig something up that can sense pressure. Not to mention that pain is something more than just a sense. We don’t understand pain nearly enough in animals to apply it to machines (and what twisted maniac would want to).
viking999 on November 19, 2007 at 11:55 PM