Terminator is just around the corner
Zombie PotatoHeads
17-03-2009, 01:28
Not literally, so you needn't look out your window to check.
However, those crazy Japanese and their crazy obsession with all things electronic have brought us one step closer to a psychotic, unstoppable, killing machine:
Walking, talking female robot to hit Japan catwalk
TSUKUBA, Japan – A new walking, talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and has trimmed down to 43 kilograms (95 pounds) to make a debut at a fashion show. But it still hasn't cleared safety standards required to share the catwalk with human models.
Developers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, a government-backed organization, said their "cybernetic human," shown Monday, wasn't ready to help with daily chores or work side by side with people — as many hope robots will be able to do in the future.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090316/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_girl_robot
First it's the catwalks, then it's walking into bars naked, beating the crap out of a biker and stealing his clothes.
Watch the video - The face and hands look realistic, but they need to work on her gait. 'She' walks like she needs to poop real bad.
Boonytopia
17-03-2009, 01:50
I wonder what the "safety standards required to share the catwalk with human models" are? Not hunting down your fellow models like dogs & slaughtering them?
I see what you mean about her urgent desire to do a crap though! :tongue:
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
17-03-2009, 02:02
'She' walks like she needs to poop real bad.
Considering that this is a Japanese company, it might have been the designer's preference that it walk like that.
Technologically, it hasn't reached that level," said Hirohisa Hirukawa, one of the robot's developers. "Even as a fashion model, people in the industry told us she was short and had a rather ordinary figure."
The robot has now developed an image problem and is refusing to be recharged more than once a day. It's developers are planning to pay for breast augmentation surgery in the hope that this will alleviate it's anxiety.
More like sex-bot.
hmmm... we need to build the counter measures for when the Japanese Terminators begin their assault...
we need to design the Cyber Tentical monsters!
hmmm... we need to build the counter measures for when the Japanese Terminators begin their assault...
we need to design the Cyber Tentical monsters!
50 phallic tentacles on each. That way we may have a chance against the superior Japanese robots.
50 phallic tentacles on each. That way we may have a chance against the superior Japanese robots.
ever seen the Aeon Flux cartoon series? the one where she and Trevor were squaring off in a lab sunk in the middle of an anesthetic sea?
She's holding a crab claw like device and he's brandising a... well... tentacle gun would be the best description.... a gun sporting four tentacles... he looks at what he's holding and offhandedly says...
"you know... I have absolutely no idea how this thing works."
New Manvir
17-03-2009, 03:55
How much longer till I get to have sex with robots?
greed and death
17-03-2009, 04:15
50 phallic tentacles on each. That way we may have a chance against the superior Japanese robots.
sounds like a La blue girl plot.
Gauthier
17-03-2009, 04:53
More like sex-bot.
When Judgment Day comes, Humanity will be caught literally pants-down.
Heinleinites
17-03-2009, 06:47
Why am I not surprised that it was the Japanese that finally came up with the 'robot girl'?
The Lone Alliance
17-03-2009, 06:54
Said the robot did the suprise expression when asked to smile?
It's already disobeying orders!!!
Or is that how "Bad Command or Filename" is shown on a robot.
If so that just makes it creepier.
A robot that looks confused when it's 'confused'...
Yeah this is so reaching the Uncanny Valley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley)effect.
Lord Tothe
17-03-2009, 06:58
Wait 'til they're fueled by alcohol and can be prone to kleptomania. THEN I'll be afraid. :p
Non Aligned States
17-03-2009, 07:03
Wait 'til they're fueled by alcohol and can be prone to kleptomania. THEN I'll be afraid. :p
What if they make one to deliver gifts to good little girls and boys, and punish the bad ones instead?
Gauthier
17-03-2009, 07:12
What if they make one to deliver gifts to good little girls and boys, and punish the bad ones instead?
Hell.
On.
Earth.
http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/robot-santa.jpg
Zombie PotatoHeads
17-03-2009, 07:30
Hell.
On.
Earth.
http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/robot-santa.jpg
omg, it'll become a wee box with a red 'x' in it!
we're doomed!
dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooomed!
that was so much fun holding down the 'o' key. I recommend to all and sundry.
Gauthier
17-03-2009, 07:58
omg, it'll become a wee box with a red 'x' in it!
we're doomed!
dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooomed!
that was so much fun holding down the 'o' key. I recommend to all and sundry.
Your browser sucks.
:tongue:
Zombie PotatoHeads
17-03-2009, 12:58
Your browser sucks.
:tongue:
It's IE, so waddaya expect?
Damn company policy of only allowing Microsoft apps on their pcs.
Rambhutan
17-03-2009, 13:56
Shame that these are little more than remote control puppets. The AI side of giant killing robots is definitely lagging behind.
Sevengates
17-03-2009, 15:35
if you look up big dog, its a millitary robot that is very good at moving from point A to point B without anyone under its controle. it make fightening noise and is what makes me want to sleep with a shotgun.
Lord Tothe
17-03-2009, 21:46
What if they make one to deliver gifts to good little girls and boys, and punish the bad ones instead?
you mean this? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk90S8BVLvU)