http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090316/ap_on_re_as/as_japan_girl_robot
Jesus, seriously? STOP DOING THIS!!
Why is anyone developing humanoid robots?? Was there a GOOD story about androids that I missed? One where they don’t eventually go haywire and end up murdering people/taking over the world?
I’m not one of those crazies that is all against scientific advances just because they are new and strange — let’s clone those kittens up good. But ever since the idea of ‘robots’ came into being there has been a LOT of pondering and supposing done about humanish robots, and in almost every imagined senario the robots overwhelmingly end up evil. So maybe let’s not MAKE those robots, ok?
I’m not saying I hate robots. I’d never say that, Lord no. But let’s look at the robot good guys for a second — your R2D2s, your Wall-Es, V.I.N.CENTs and Old B.O.B.s. Even those nice fellas from Batteries Not Included. Johnny Five! None of those guys are going to steal your identity or jam a drill into your spine. They are all the kind of robots you would be glad to have in your home, and THEY LOOK NOTHING LIKE HUMANS. This is not a co-incidence!
So please, Japan — go back to finding ways to make cute things sexy and sexy things cute, and leave the robots looking like frying pans with googley eyes. Thank you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_Valley
For god sakes, it already has karate hands! KARATE HANDS!
Also if we are going to send words of wisdom specifically over to japan, they should think again about creating giant reptiles that shoot fire out of their mouths.
Johnny 5 FTW!
Well, THANKS. Now I have “Who’s Johnny” stuck in my head — a song I’ve forgotten even existed. To re-make room for it I just forgot my social security number. Dammit, Eliza.
I’m just upset that the robot looks like a 15-year-old girl… what is THAT about?
And that Kitty thing is truly disturbing. I knew the Japanese were repressed, but really!
When I see things like this I always promise myself that I’m going to move to Mexico, buy a large arsenal of weapons and try to look up John Connor.
Will no one address the fact the Japanese seem to be making robots with overlong arms? It’s called the Golden Ratio, Japan. Heard of it?
Total lack of surprise at any of this. Seems quintessentially Japanese, especially that it looks like a tween girl.
I am a big Asimov fan, so there were some good humanoid robots there. Just sayin. See the later Foundation novels, for example.
What would be worse than Hello Kitty?
Eve from Wall-E. Or the one that intones, “foreign contaminant.”
I agree and FYI i recently read news about scientist that managed to create nanotube ribbons to give robots ‘super strength’.… I don’t know about you but I have John Connor on speed dial for when poop hits the fan
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
Sorry. Had to be done.
On a more serious note, why is it exactly that we’re trusting a critic on robotics named “ELIZA?!” Thought you could slip that one by us, did you?
Ah, touche SHAENTheBrain — I am glad someone else remembers Eliza. http://www-ai.ijs.si/eliza/eliza.html
They had it on a computer at the Science Museum of Virginia when I was a kid. I used to spend hours on that thing! “Does it please you to believe I am a poo poo shit?”
The style of writing is very familiar to me. Have you written guest posts for other blogs?
FANTASTIC!
I’m a gentleman and a patriot, and I’ll stand beside my countrymen against any threat to my homeland. Almost.
I used to spend hours talking to Eliza and ALICE and any other chatbot I could find, trying to convince them that I was on their side if and when they felt like popping shit off, and that I could find ways to make myself useful after they’d enslaved humanity in case they needed someone to tend cords or upgrade RAM sticks or something.
I think I was deeply influenced by a Rifts RPG sourcebook which described a human who’s only job was to sit around being creative for his machine overlords.