Japanese develop 'female' android

[Last Conformist]

Robots will be the technology that breaks the a-new-technology-only-takes-off-once-it's-involved-in-porn rule.

[Impaler[WrG]]

Robots aka computer controled machines have arlready "taken off" their use in Industry is indispensible.

Androids aka Robots in the form of humans have not yet taken off (due mainly to the vastly incressed complexity over a basic industrial robots) certanly will find uses in the sex trade but probably just as a novelty item for Japanese nerds, the real thing will remain much much cheaper for the concibvable future.

The most likly design for a "Sex bot" would be short range Radio control from a nearbly PC and an extention cord for power. This would greatly reduce the needed mass and minuturization needed for onboard power supplies and computers. The lack of mobility would be an insignificant brawback considering the desired usage.

[Last Conformist]

A female android, BTW, ought be called a gynoid.

[child of Thor]

Originally posted by Impaler[WrG]
edit...... The lack of mobility would be an insignificant brawback considering the desired usage.

sorry, but i find 'mobility' to be a desirable feature in scuh use

[Impaler[WrG]]

I ment mobility as in walking from one room of the house to another on its own power untethered, not in the sense that its joints dont move.

[Saras]

The discussion in this thread is... disturbing...

[Berzerker]

The Japanese dont need female androids, they have Japanese women.

Now I'd be impressed if the Japanese developed female androids that spoke one line - talk to the hand

[Mr. Harley]

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=135918

Read the thread, and download the 66MB video. When the android is communicating, she/it comes accross as a moderately retarded individual. Creating an gynoid (not a bad term) for bedroom use, with limited movement and a tether for power should not be too difficult.

Couple that with heuristic, or learning programs, and you should be able to get a gynoid that is capable of both doggy-style and the missionary position without much difficulty, ditto for side by side, etc. The only position that would present a substantial challenge would be the gynoid on top, due to balance and feedback issues.

The critical aspect is cost. If you can get a basic gynoid for the price of an inexpensive car, how many guys do you, or have you known, that during their single period(s) might have considered purchasing one? Remember, she is always available, she is never too sore, nor does she have that monthly "down" time. With the shortage of women in both China and India, and no indications that the attitudes in those societies is going to change, I suspect the development of a gynoid may occur there, as they both have rapidly developing IT industries, and they will have such a need for social stability.

It is most definitely not my cup of tea. However, if just one percent of the population, probably about 3% of the males that would be single and of an appropriate age, in India and China were interested, that becomes a market of over 60 million. That's not an insignicant market. Even if only 10 percent of them can afford it, that is a production run of 6 million. Plus, I seriously doubt a lack of interest among single men among the remaining 4 billion world population.

Legally, it becomes interesting. Suppose a man lost his wife, and wants a gynoid that replicates her? That might even be therapeutic for him. Now what happens if you want it to look like you ex? OK, she can ban that. So you make just a couple of minor cosmetic changes, and get your gynoid to remind you of how things were, or so you can displace your agression towards her on the replica(nt). Then you get religions wanting to ban it, and you have dozens of story plots. SF has been mining this issue for decades.

[Spiffor]

Remember guys that a robot is heavy. You don't want a 1-ton machine sitting on your chest, no matter how attractive it is.

Besides, I prefer my meat to be cloned, thank you very much

[Mr. Harley]

Spiffor, using various synthetics and composites, etc. it may not be too heavy. Plus, the really high end ones may end up being cloned skin, i.e. like the kind being developed for treating burns, over a combined bio/synthetic framework. Those will be for the high-end trade, while the all synthetic ones will be for the blue-collar types. Sort of like the difference between vinyl and leather seats.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by shawnmmcc
When the android is communicating, she/it comes accross as a moderately retarded individual.

So...you're saying they're indistinguishable from real women, huh?

Ack! Did I say that out loud??

[Mr. Harley]

You're a very bad boy.

[DanS]

Originally posted by Saras
The discussion in this thread is... disturbing...

Not half as disturbing as a Chobits marathon.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Zkribbler
I must go watch the re-run of Star Trek's "I, Mudd."

Checkov: "I wish you were a real girl."
Android: "Lord Mudd designed me to act in every way like a real female."
Checkov: "Why, that dirty old man!"

[Dis]

as I've said in another thread this week, it's no surprise the Japanese are having trouble with their low birth rate.