“World’s first sex robot revealed”
The one on the left. The one on the right is just the prototype based on the inventor. She looks scared and uncomfortable, which is excellent realism.
More here. WARNING: That’s a link to The Sun. They say “she” can talk, hopefully a firmware update will soon fix that ARE WE RIGHT FELLAS? HELL YES. STUPID COWS.
filed in ACTUAL PRODUCTS, THE MODERN WORLD on Jan.11, 2010
January 11th, 2010 on 1:55 pm
That’s Lady Gaga isn’t it?
Nice how he looks like he’s wearing his best serial killer boiler-suit and mad-eyed-stare combo.
As you’d expect really.
January 11th, 2010 on 1:58 pm
“…meaning she can talk footie and cars with her owner.”
Excellent. So I’ll have NOTHING to talk to her about, just like with a real woman.
Also, she has quite broad shoulders and a tiny head but I probably still would. Shame it was designed by a man who apparently doesn’t know what a woman is supposed to look like. You can look at them in magazines or on the Internet these days you know, Doug.
January 11th, 2010 on 2:14 pm
It looks worrying like 60s hearthrob Davy Jones out of the Monkees to me. You would certainly get the funniest looks from everyone you met walking out with that.
January 11th, 2010 on 2:52 pm
http://images.emusic.com/img/artist/117/657/11765780.jpeg
January 11th, 2010 on 6:03 pm
The post-strangulation anniversary edition’s out already?!
January 11th, 2010 on 6:25 pm
Wou…..
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the one on the left?
Meh. Every hole’s a goal.
January 11th, 2010 on 6:45 pm
The video on DUH SUN’s website is hilarious and utterly pathetic. The moron that created it is at pains to stress how the personality and relationship you have with the ‘thing’ is the real reason for it, not the se . . . (I almost called it sex) MASTURBATION you perform with it.
His reason for why it is so great is basically a description of a real woman. So why not get a real woman? Because you’re the kind of freak that thinks a life-sized doll with a robotic voice synth is an acceptable approximation of a real relationship? Admitting your product is aimed squarely at severely socially retarded people isn’t a great tactic. Would be better to just admit it’s just a wank-mannequin.
Wannkequin. Manwankuin. Mannequm. Masturquin. Mannequnt.
January 11th, 2010 on 8:18 pm
I still love Dick Socrates.
January 11th, 2010 on 8:45 pm
Thanks father viv. It helps push back the enveloping darkness. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5s2v2jUDogg/Rt3PgdDAPmI/AAAAAAAAAB8/XLbUd-WZ4u4/s400/duck_amuck+copy.jpg
January 11th, 2010 on 11:36 pm
RealDoll http://realdoll.com/ is still better than robots.
January 11th, 2010 on 11:37 pm
RealDoll http://www.realdoll.com/ is still better than robots.
January 11th, 2010 on 11:42 pm
Functional tear ducts or no sale.
January 12th, 2010 on 10:34 am
Definitely Davy Jones of the Monkees and therefore: Would.
January 12th, 2010 on 1:28 pm
Actually it could be Bobby Gillespie if you squint.
January 12th, 2010 on 3:09 pm
I was thinking Chrissie Hynde or Ian Brown, myself.
January 12th, 2010 on 4:36 pm
Nigel Tufnel?
January 12th, 2010 on 4:46 pm
*waits patiently for joke about turning it up to 11*
Shit, I just made the horribly obvious and unfunny joke myself.
Not even this third layer of self-referential irony can save me now.
January 29th, 2010 on 10:03 am
Yes, he’s creepy. Most of the people working on sexbots are. But frankly, would it really be so bad if psychopaths satisfied their need for total sexual control with a robot rather than a fresh co-ed corpse? I just wish these developers would stop making grandiose claims, only to deliver another steaming pile of underwhelming.
Aesthetically, this thing is not an improvement on Realdoll, or indeed, a blow-up doll from 1974. If you just want a Realdoll with speaker in it, HoneyDolls are the way to go. (They also feature the hilarious ‘honey flavor’.) The ‘robotic’ functions on Roxxxy are both behind the tech curve, and totally puzzling – why would someone pay for a ‘frigid’ setting on a sex toy? Bar none, the best software is in Le Trung’s Aiko, but I still wouldn’t call her appealing, as a companion or a sextoy.
Until lonely engineers realize how woefully unequipped they are to grow a business in a just-emerging sector and let some smart VC takes the reins, the physically and emotionally crippled will have to make-do with hookers. Hookers who may steal your driver’s license while you sleep. Damn filthy hookers.