Actroid-F: the angel of death robot coming to a hospital near you (video)

[Generic Other]

Run time: 02:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFVlzUAZkHY   Posted on YouTube: October 26, 2010 By YouTube Member: RoboTimes Views on YouTube: 19235   Posted on DU: October 27, 2010 By DU Member: Generic Other Views on DU: 1470

 
It's been a few years since we checked in with Actroid, a bot we first saw way back in 2005. What you're looking at above is Actroid-F, Kokoro Co. Ltd. and ATR's latest iteration of the creepy humanoid robot that can mime the operator's facial expressions and head movements with unbelievable (but not quite human) accuracy. Her current job is to act as "as an observer in hospitals to gauge patient reactions." We guess that's one way to get around euthanasia laws.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/27/actroid-f-the-angel-of-death-robot-coming-to-a-hospital-near-yo/?ncid=webmail

OMG. That is so real looking!! Makes this guy's prediction seem plausible!

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Sex and marriage with robots? It could happen
Robots soon will become more human-like in appearance, researcher says


"My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots," artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience.

Levy recently completed his Ph.D. work on the subject of human-robot relationships, covering many of the privileges and practices that generally come with marriage as well as outside of it.

At first, sex with robots might be considered geeky, "but once you have a story like 'I had sex with a robot, and it was great!' appear someplace like Cosmo magazine, I'd expect many people to jump on the bandwagon," Levy said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21271545/

[Ian David]

1. I would *so* have sex with that. n/t

[grahamhgreen]

13. It may not be a virgin....

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Gives the phrase, "he's a love machine" a whole new meaning... n/t

[DJ13]

3. Thats just creepy

If robots are ever used in daily life I hope they look like robots instead of sex toys.

[herbm]

7. Creepy is the right word. Really disturbing.

[arcane1]

4. Potentially stupid question about marrying robots:

Why would a license be needed? It's a machine, so it isn't like a person who can enter into legal contracts...

Sex with robots won't surprise me at all, I estimate that 45% of Japan's economy is devoted to it (j/k). But that's not the same as a state issuing a legal document to "marry" a machine. Methinks David Levy is a little kookoo. :crazy:

[DJ13]

10. Why would a license be needed?

Maybe a 'driving' license?

[Warpy]

12. The robot would be incapable of informed consent

and so would be incapable of entering into a binding legal contract.

Marriage is out, guys. You'll have to settle for a shackup.

[AsahinaKimi]

5. latest iteration of the creepy humanoid robot ? Dame desuyo!!

Kawaiiiiii ne! I think "she" is cute. OMG, Japan is doing so well with robotics, its totally amazing!! Sugoii desune! Honto, honto desu!

[Generic Other]

6. I found her facial features incredibly lifelike BUT also jerky like Data

And I am not sure I like the idea of a robot being assigned to watch me die. How impersonal can you get?

[Ian David]

14. You do realize Data is an actual person named Brent Spiner? n/t

[Generic Other]

19. Yes...but he was made-up to look like this robot

and he tended to move his face muscles in a similar way. He was a good actor, I guess.

[wxgeek7]

8. Bladerunner

Wow, seems like this kind of lines up with the movie, Bladerunner, which was set in 2019! Kind of freaky.

[Newest Reality]

9. That looks like

the embodiment of a metaphor of what we have become to some degree, already. That is, considering the impact of corporate mono-culture and the collective trance induced by carefully controlled mass media and superficial politics.

I wonder if CEO's get power-stiffys when they see this stark representation of what is and might be for those who play robotic parts in the almost invisible hierarchy that influences and now ultimately controls, (via the ripe and flourishing Garden of High Technology) what we end-up living in and having to deal with while we proclaim our freedoms and so-called choices within that structure.

While some think of the coolness and wonder of that robot, it strikes me as yet another warning along the buzzing road to the hive-mind. No, not because I fear robots or find them to be a threat; it is because I see so many of us already living like automatons, under some form of control and influence by the puppeteers, right down to their adamant denials of that glaring fact.

[Warpy]

11. Yeah, sex dolls will likely be first

because those need to be lifelike. I think Real Dolls is actually working on this, too, although it seems they've dropped the verbal responses from their high end models (read about it, I do not check back often).

Sex dolls are great. The type of man who uses them is exactly the type of man real women never want to go out with.

This particular robot is good, but still too time delayed to be anything but creepy.

[Lint Head]

15. The mouth movement is not correct with

the words. That is one aspect of robotics that needs to be perfected. Robots and animatronic devices still have the Howdy Doody chin flop when they make sounds.

[DRoseDARs]

16. Dear Japan: Please stop building Cylons, thank you. Signed: Everyone else.

Global nuclear Holocaust, DO NOT WANT.

[NOLALady]

17. What the frack?

This has all happened before.

[wackywaggin]

18. Question? Why do we need robots to perform tasks

When there are millions of people out there looking for work?

Heretic Wack :0)

[Generic Other]

20. They are more docile workers than we are...

That is a scary thought, isn't it? We are all in trouble if they decide we are expendable easily replaced by these things!