Could You Fall In Love With A Robot ?

[churchill]

In today's bangkok post - Robots are being developed to respond to emmotions with a view to becomming companions to the lonely . They say sex with robots also is being developed with robots giving different signals and sounds depending on where they are touched !

I suppose quite a few positives , no arguments , no chatter unless you want it etc

Personally I think if you are lonely and need companionship , not many things could replace a dog .

[Sabum]

Sex with a dog? No thanks, let me know how that goes.

[Mighty Mouse]

Some men now have their rubber blow up dolls to make love to. No need to fall in love with a robot....besides.....wouldn't the robots sensitive areas become rusty after a while?

[bkkjames]

Sex with a dog? No thanks, let me know how that goes.

I prefer my blow up doll, doesnt talk back, no teeth and only have to deal with her when I am in the mood.

[whatsoever]

How about a robotic dog. No shit to scoop up - and no need for condoms during sex

[kmart]

Sex with a dog? No thanks, let me know how that goes.

I prefer my blow up doll, doesnt talk back, no teeth and only have to deal with her when I am in the mood.

If she develops a runny nose, it may be time to empty her.

[a2396]

Sex with some women, far to many, are the same as robots. It's called "going through the motions".

[surface]

The sexy robot sheep sex market should surely be larger than the sexy robot dog market.

[TheDon]

Sex with some women, far to many, are the same as robots. It's called "going through the motions".

But you are a robot arent you?

[whatsoever]

Maybe in the Welsh market - but we are talking international here!

[kiakaha]

In today's bangkok post - Robots are being developed to respond to emmotions with a view to becomming companions to the lonely . They say sex with robots also is being developed with robots giving different signals and sounds depending on where they are touched !

I suppose quite a few positives , no arguments , no chatter unless you want it etc

Personally I think if you are lonely and need companionship , not many things could replace a dog .

those daleks were rather fetching in the 80's

[Moonrakers]

It'd have to be one charming M'Fing robot.

[whatsoever]

I think my father fancied robots! When i was a kid i often heard him utter - 'i wouldnt mind screwing the arse of that'

[RakJungTorlae]

In today's bangkok post - Robots are being developed to respond to emmotions with a view to becomming companions to the lonely . They say sex with robots also is being developed with robots giving different signals and sounds depending on where they are touched !

I suppose quite a few positives , no arguments , no chatter unless you want it etc

Personally I think if you are lonely and need companionship , not many things could replace a dog .

They have emotions eh? how do they feel about 3soms ?

[Payboy]

Could You Fall In Love With A Robot ?

been there - divorced that - prefer clones now!

[AFKAFSinLOS]

In today's bangkok post - Robots are being developed to respond to emmotions with a view to becomming companions to the lonely . They say sex with robots also is being developed with robots giving different signals and sounds depending on where they are touched !

I suppose quite a few positives , no arguments , no chatter unless you want it etc

Personally I think if you are lonely and need companionship , not many things could replace a dog .

Great post!

I wonder if the Thai version comes complete with sick buffalo stories and a "brother"...

I'll take your word for your activities with your dog, but you must get some funny reactions at swinger parties...

[whatsoever]

Could You Fall In Love With A Robot ?

been there - divorced that - prefer clones now!

I also have always fancied shagging a circus performer

[churchill]

and what would you call her - roberta , tiny , darleking ?

[Payboy]

Could You Fall In Love With A Robot ?

been there - divorced that - prefer clones now!

I also have always fancied shagging a circus performer

thats a thought - not many good looking females in the thai parliament though....

Edited July 9, 2008 by Payboy

[toptuan]

Seriously, a couple of movies (Artificial Intelligence and The Companion)...

... have convinced me it's entirely possible:

An interesting article on the subject....

In the Movies: Humans and Robots in Love

When The Institute asked readers in January if they thought humans might one day marry robots, we had no idea we’d get so many thought-provoking responses [see this month’s Marketplace of Ideas]. Member Bryan W. Klosiewicz pointed out that the idea of human-robot unions wasn’t all that far-fetched—it had been portrayed by Hollywood for years in such movies as Bicentennial Man and Artificial Intelligence: AI. His e-mail got us wondering if other human-robot relationships had made it to the theaters, so we asked the IEEE History Center to do some digging. Here’s what the center’s senior research historian, Frederik Nebeker, uncovered.

The history of robots in movies is almost as old as the word robot itself. The Czech writer Karel Čapek coined the term in 1920 to describe machines designed to replace human workers. Seven years later, the first movie-star robot appeared on the silver, but silent, screen as Maria, in Fritz Lang’s science-fiction film, Metropolis. The sultry robot aroused certain feelings in other characters in the movie—she is frequently described by movie historians as erotic—but she gave little evidence of having feelings herself. In fact, the Maria robot brought out feelings in others that were anything but loving. She/it was burned at the stake by people she had really aggravated.

Later movie robots, such as Robbie in Forbidden Planet (1956), seemed to have feelings, and R2D2 and 3CPO in Star Wars (1977) made good companions for humans. And in the 1994 movie Star Trek: Generations, the android Data has an emotion chip installed in his head so that he can feel joy, fear, and other human emotions.

SEXBOTS The most believable bond, if one judges by how often it occurs in movies, comes from the sexual attractiveness of female robots, generally played not by bags of bolts but beautiful women. No surprises here that men could fall for them. Those in the 1965 movie Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine are very seductive. In Sleeper (1973), Miles Monroe, played by Woody Allen, said that female androids would become very popular. We saw why two years later in The Stepford Wives. In that movie, husbands in a small town seem to have—at least from their viewpoint—ideal wives, who turn out to be compliant robots. The movie evidently struck a chord, because there were several sequels and a recent remake. However, the popularity of these movies likely came from their view of gender roles—the female robots were subservient—rather than robotics. Similarly, the alluring but deadly fembots in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) are likewise more illustrative of attitudes toward women than robots.

ROBOTS IN LOVE As far as robots showing love toward a human, it’s easier to find examples among male robots. Love for a mother is felt by the robot boy in Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001). Love for a father is shown by the robot in And You Thought Your Parents Were Weird (1991), whose capacity for emotion comes about when his dead father’s spirit takes over the robot’s microchips. The title character of Edward Scissorhands (1990) feels romantic love for a human, played by Winona Ryder. And in Bicentennial Man (1999), Robin Williams plays Andrew, a robot that gradually acquires emotions. He and a human, played by Embeth Davidtz, fall in love and marry. The World Congress finally recognizes the marriage as valid, but only after it recognizes Andrew as human.

HYBRIDS Movies are rife with examples of love between humans and cyborgs, which are part human and part machine. Played by actors, the cyborgs appear totally human, of course, giving no indication they have been put together on an assembly line with hammer and screwdriver. The cast of cyborgs include Officer Murphy, played by Peter Weller in RoboCop (1987); Annalee Call, played by Winona Ryder in Alien Resurrection (1997); and the title character, played by Matthew Broderick, in Inspector Gadget (1999). In Blade Runner (1982) Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, falls in love with Rachael, a so-called replicant—an android difficult to distinguish from a human.

So human and robot interactions and attachments, romantic and otherwise, abound in Tinseltown. But just what sort of robot did readers have in mind when they responded to our question on robots and marriage? Do their robots resemble Winona Ryder or Matthew Broderick? We doubt they look anything like the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz.

from http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/

Edited July 9, 2008 by toptuan

[h90]

In today's bangkok post - Robots are being developed to respond to emmotions with a view to becomming companions to the lonely . They say sex with robots also is being developed with robots giving different signals and sounds depending on where they are touched !

I suppose quite a few positives , no arguments , no chatter unless you want it etc

Personally I think if you are lonely and need companionship , not many things could replace a dog .

sheeps my friend, sheeps not dogs

There are these rubber sex puppets which, so I got told, can perform some actions as well (sound most probably). So development is on the way....

[Gary A]

I think it all depends on the robot. I can see one huge advantage and that's being able to pull out her battery pack.

[AFKAFSinLOS]

.... And in the 1994 movie Star Trek: Generations, the android Data has an emotion chip installed in his head so that he can feel joy, fear, and other human emotions.

In one of the episodes in the series, he went quite a bit further. They encountered some phenomenom that made everyone on the starship shall we say... amorous. Data ended up with the lovely blond security lady, and put quite a smile on her face... He described himself as being "programmed in multiple techniques" which she decided to take him up on. She seemed a bit embarassed about it afterwards though...

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SEGA have already developed one called E.M.A. which is supposed to be on sale later this year. At only 15 inches I think she'd be a bit small for me... Only a matter of time until the Japanese start building larger ones with silicone in all the right places...

[TheDon]

You can even pull out the axe on it and wont be in trouble with the law.

[MKAsok]

It's an interesting question, but one which I think will remain fairly irrelevant until we're in a position to produce 'devices,' 'beings,' whatever you want to call them, that are sophisticated to the point of becoming indistiguishable from humans. Surprised no one has mentioned Blade Runner yet.

[Goshawk]

fall in love with ?

nah..

but i think this one is absolutely amazing !!!

[mikethevigoman]

Sex with a dog? No thanks, let me know how that goes.

I prefer my blow up doll, doesnt talk back, no teeth and only have to deal with her when I am in the mood.

i bought a blow up doll, took it home blew it up and it immediatly deflated, i took it back to the shop and said " ere ,this blow up doll you sold me went down on me, " he said <deleted> me if id known that id have charged you double " !

[Mighty Mouse]

I already have a robotic arm.

Whenever the missus appears in front of me, my robotic arm immediately pulls my wallet out of my pocket and hands her money.

[geriatrickid]

SEGA have already developed one called E.M.A. which is supposed to be on sale later this year. At only 15 inches I think she'd be a bit small for me...

But not for others as the internet abounds with websites with such lovely urls as midgetsex, tinytalentxxx etc.

I swear I only looked for educational purposes. Honest.

[Naam]

I already have a robotic arm.

Whenever the missus appears in front of me, my robotic arm immediately pulls my wallet out of my pocket and hands her money.

me too. whenever the missus passes me my robotic arm grabs her derrière.