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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ace on June 14, 2005, 02:26:52 am

Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Ace on June 14, 2005, 02:26:52 am
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/0610_050610_robot.html

It's a little eerie that we're this close to having this type of robotics working. On the bright side, it now means people will be bigoted against androids instead of gays :p

Teh Cylons R coming!!!111
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: neo_hermes on June 14, 2005, 02:30:42 am
Pretty Awesome.

plz no timewarp
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Bobboau on June 14, 2005, 02:31:11 am
have they built a robot I can have sex with yet?
the Japaneese have been promiseing that one for years, and yet I have not seen any real progress on my android sex slave.
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: neo_hermes on June 14, 2005, 02:38:25 am
they should be coming out 20yrs from now.
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Black Wolf on June 14, 2005, 02:59:24 am
They still have to combine what it looks like they already have in various other robots (The ball slappers and portrait painters) to make a full on humanesque robot, but it doesn't look like the technology's that far off... pretty cool all told.
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Setekh on June 14, 2005, 03:17:07 am
I wonder why we need our robots to look like humans, anyway.
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Rott3 on June 14, 2005, 03:28:29 am
Because of this

Early in the 21st Century, THE TYRELL
CORPORATION advanced Robot evolution
into the NEXUS phase — a being virtually
identical to a human — known as a Replicant.

    The NEXUS 6 Replicants were superior
in strength and agility, and at least equal
in intelligence, to the genetic engineers
who created them.

    Replicants were used Off-world as
slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and
colonization of other planets.

    After a bloody mutiny by a NEXUS 6
combat team in an Off-world colony,
Replicants were declared illegal
on earth — under penalty of death.

    Special police squads — BLADE RUNNER
UNITS — had orders to shoot to kill, upon
detection, any trespassing Replicant.

    This was not called execution.
    It was called retirement.



LOS ANGELES
NOVEMBER, 2019
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Swamp_Thing on June 14, 2005, 03:28:45 am
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Originally posted by Bobboau
have they built a robot I can have sex with yet?
the Japaneese have been promiseing that one for years, and yet I have not seen any real progress on my android sex slave.


It won´t be long untill we start getting our very own Cherry 2000 sex slaves. I would buy one my self, if they were good. At least these don´t nag you about taking out the trash, putting the toillete seat down, and give you a hard time every time you go out to the pub for a drink with the boys. And they never get headaches either!
;7
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Nico on June 14, 2005, 04:47:56 am
But they might, you know, break your arms or rip off your something because of the complicated struggles in bed. And they must weight an hefty ton so you can forget about a few fun things ~~

Seriously, tho, it's very cool, I just wouldn't want one at home, coz, as the Hiroshi man said, it would be kindda creepy. Gimme a Tachikoma instead!
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Gortef on June 14, 2005, 04:59:05 am
I'm with ya! Tachikoma all the way! :yes:

Cool achievement though. I'm eager to see what they can come up next :nod:
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Nico on June 14, 2005, 05:14:58 am
Robot with tentacles.
You don't believe me?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0209_050209_octopus.html
That one the japanese are gonna like :D
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Swamp_Thing on June 14, 2005, 06:32:38 am
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Originally posted by Nico
But they might, you know, break your arms or rip off your something because of the complicated struggles in bed.  


Some people like it rough!
:p
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Ghostavo on June 14, 2005, 07:26:35 am
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Originally posted by Setekh
I wonder why we need our robots to look like humans, anyway.


Because we have a born desire to create something similar to us.

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Originally posted by Swamp_Thing
Some people like it rough!


Like the shivans in Hallfight!! ;7
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Mefustae on June 14, 2005, 08:08:13 am
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Originally posted by Ghostavo
Like the shivans in Hallfight!! ;7


Oooooh, Kinky...
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Gortef on June 14, 2005, 08:35:51 am
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Originally posted by Nico
Robot with tentacles.
You don't believe me?
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/02/0209_050209_octopus.html
That one the japanese are gonna like :D


:lol:
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: karajorma on June 14, 2005, 09:06:20 am
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Originally posted by Black Wolf
They still have to combine what it looks like they already have in various other robots (The ball slappers and portrait painters) to make a full on humanesque robot, but it doesn't look like the technology's that far off... pretty cool all told.


Maybe for you but I don't want a ball slapping android. Sounds painful :p
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Liberator on June 14, 2005, 09:08:35 am
Humaniform robots are simple to explain, we have thousands of years of human design and invention, it is far easier to design a robot to fit in that envrioment than to reengineer the envrioment for the robot.
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Black Wolf on June 14, 2005, 11:51:45 am
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Originally posted by karajorma


Maybe for you but I don't want a ball slapping android. Sounds painful :p


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Originally posted by Swamp_Thing


Some people like it rough!
:p


?
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Unknown Target on June 14, 2005, 12:03:31 pm
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Originally posted by Ghostavo



Like the shivans in Hallfight!! ;7


Does anyone remember when that guy found the Shivan body slamming the Terran near the end? That was pretty funny :D
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Ford Prefect on June 14, 2005, 12:17:37 pm
Wake me up when we've achieved this:

(http://www.perkowitz.net/blog/images/ai-gigolo-joe-jane.jpg)
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: TrashMan on June 14, 2005, 06:11:19 pm
Meh.. I like huge mettalic robots with big guns and swords and capes and stuff...mean looking too. .. wouldn't mind if they transformed either..

jsut gimme one to drive home :D

and gimme the chick above too:D
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Kosh on June 15, 2005, 12:25:16 am
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Originally posted by Bobboau
have they built a robot I can have sex with yet?
 




Just like the female Cylon infiltrators in Battlestar Galactica?
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Mefustae on June 15, 2005, 03:54:09 am
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Originally posted by Kosh

Just like the female Cylon infiltrators in Battlestar Galactica?


*Shrugs* ...It's all good...
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Kosh on June 15, 2005, 04:21:33 am
Better yet, I wonder how long until we get "Terminators". Living tissue over a metal endoskeletan.
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: pyro-manic on June 15, 2005, 08:32:15 am
That's a cyborg. ;) They're actually around now in certain forms - the latest replacement limbs are controlled by brainwaves, and there are basic bionic eyes in existence. Artificial organs are not far off, and from there it'll be possible to replace large parts of the body with mechanical systems. I suspect skeletal augmentation/replacement and the like isn't more than a century off...
Title: New Japanese Android
Post by: Bobboau on June 15, 2005, 08:34:10 am
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Originally posted by Kosh




Just like the female Cylon infiltrators in Battlestar Galactica?


exactly