Comments on: Video: The feminist fembot

By: viking999

viking999 — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:55:31 +0000

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).

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Wipeout

Hot Air » Blog Archive » Video: Wipeout — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:57:27 +0000

[...] the way your android should react to incidents like this, not by rubbing her leg and asking, with exquisite passive aggression, what she did to deserve [...]

By: Captain Scarlet

Captain Scarlet — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:15:21 +0000

My favorite line: “Why did you do that for?”

Obviously not a protocol droid.

Move along… move along…

By: James

James — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:12:12 +0000

–a robot with a caustic personality that sits in a wheelchair and can tell you about the weather…

Larry Flynt?

By: ScottMcC

ScottMcC — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:51:16 +0000

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.

By: thegreatbeast

thegreatbeast — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:15:52 +0000

I would not hit that. I’ll wait for version 2.0.

By: jdkchem

jdkchem — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:13:55 +0000

And yet the fembot is still more human then my ex-wife.

By: morganfrost

morganfrost — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:07:11 +0000

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.

By: Joey1974

Joey1974 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:01:40 +0000

Why would you ask? did I sound scorned or bitter? lololol

By: Roger Brown

Roger Brown — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:45:01 +0000

Oooohhhhh. Zetterson, that was a nasty!

By: Low Earth Orbit

Low Earth Orbit — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:39:37 +0000

Rule One for Robot Engineers…

It’s just basic design sense….

By: Zetterson

Zetterson — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:16:43 +0000

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

Having trouble with the ladies Joey?

By: highhopes

highhopes — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:09:29 +0000

Slap a blond wig on that thing and the Secret Service wouldn’t have to find a stand-in for Hillary.

By: Talon

Talon — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:03:15 +0000

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

ABSOLUTELY!!!

By: CBarker

CBarker — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:01:51 +0000

Cold, nearly emotionless, expensive, and she didin’t like em touched either.
All that code, only to make my Ex-wife….ha-ha

By: Blacklake

Blacklake — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:00:24 +0000

Idiot! This is SO not the idea!!!

By: Nethicus

Nethicus — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:49:44 +0000

I hear the robot gets moody and irrational 3-4 days a month.

By: psrch

psrch — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:46:03 +0000

Gee. They cloned my first girlfriend. Big whoop.

By: Always Right

Always Right — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:40:04 +0000

She may not like the “touching” now, but what happens after she has a couple of drinks?

By: Joey1974

Joey1974 — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:39:14 +0000

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……

By: Halley

Halley — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:35:47 +0000

Imagine…

By: Splashman

Splashman — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:31:00 +0000

Oh yeah: If there’s anything to admire about this project, it’s that they taught the robot to recognize badly-accented English.

By: Splashman

Splashman — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:29:39 +0000

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!”

By: RW Wacko

RW Wacko — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:25:39 +0000

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

Dingdingding we have a winner. The rape fantasy/girl protesting thing is pretty big over there, comparatively speaking of course.

By: Enrique

Enrique — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:19:55 +0000

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…