Poll: Worlds first Sex-bot [May be NSFW]

[Kud]

There should be a "I don't care" option.

 

[Gingerman]

Although I'd probably never by one myself (Dont have the money *cough*) I really don't care about it if anything I'm in support of this kind of thing. Why? because there are some really lonely people out there who need this kind of thing to prevent them from doing something they may really regret. So if this kind of thing becomes mainstream and helps people from not killing themselves then I'm all for it.

 

[Octorok]

... this creeps me out so much. It makes me think of Warren from Buffy TVS *shudders*

Nah dude, his sexbots looked incredible! That intelligence and realism!

In fact, if he wasn't a fictional character I'd have half a mind to...

[sup]Why are you all staring at me? [/sup]

 

[plastic_window]

"She's a companion. She has a personality. She hears you. She listens to you. She speaks. She feels your touch. She goes to sleep. We are trying to replicate a personality of a person."


The 'robot' has a skeleton (a feature present in most high quality sex dolls), but cannot walk or move its limbs.



The major selling point is apparently its AI, which comes in five preset personalities ranging from sexually naive to dominatrix. Units can connect to the Internet to receive software updates and share personality templates.

The company explains the rationale behind the product:

"The sex doll industry was effective at creating very expensive and somewhat realistic dolls - but many people were telling us it was like their dolls were 'catatonic', like they were injured and unable to speak and interact. They wanted to have their dolls become interactive and be their friends.

These are the main parts that concern me.

I mean, I'm all for progress - and since sex is a big buisness, it seems appropriate that robotics should at some point address the most basic of all human wants.

But I don't think it's healthy for a human being to be attatched to a sex-robot emotionally. In some ways I can see why a person might turn to something like this, but we're not exactly good enough with robots to replicate Blade Runner.

Right now, I don't mind these things existing, but I find the idea of someone emotionally connecting to a machine a little disturbing.

 

[Rhade]

Despite the fact that Rocky will probably be able to swap out his tackle for any size you like I'm betting he'll still make a far inferior playmate to a real live human, on either end, really.

 

[kotorfan04]

Oh this is so interesting, and by that I mean possibly the cause of humanities demise. I can see every skeevy perv taking out a loan to pay for this sucker. Oh yes, it is going to be epic and people are about to stop breeding.

 

[BloodyThoughts]

Oh dear. What will humans make next!

I am waiting for the Animus to be made.

 

[Indecizion]

Woot looks like fun

 

[ninjaman 420]

im tired of all the arguments about how this is going to be the down fall of man kind. there's WAY to many people on this planet and if some of them would rather fuck a robot than an actual person then let them go at it. we dont need more breeders anyway.

 

[MR T3D]

?The sex doll industry was effective at creating very expensive and somewhat realistic dolls ? but many people were telling us it was like their dolls were ?catatonic?, like they were injured and unable to speak and interact. They wanted to have their dolls become interactive and be their friends..."

Wow, these people are willing to invest that much time and money into sex with robots, but not sex with people?

This...is surely a moment of great unity, as humanity facepalms as one.

It's all about the revenue, and this is an untapped market...

Pun intended?
italics were added

still, won't legal ones have to lay around for 16 or so years before legal to use..?

 

[Ancientgamer]

I'm not much of a humanist, but shouldn't you people complaining that whole swaths of will now never procreate be happy that the gene pool will be further refined?

 

[BenzSmoke]

Creepy...

 

[x0ny]

Wasn't this invented quite a while ago? At least a year ago.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

we all are going to hell..

 

[DRTJR]

What the F*ck
Why it's an expensive blow up doll. and it talks...

 

[asteroth21nox]

Sad...very very sad. It's bad enough we live in a society that has unrealistic expectations of beauty and glammorizes sex. But now we have machines that we can have sex with? Our technology is truely seperating us from what it is to be human, socially and now sexually. people who buy this thing...I feel sorry for them.

 

[Go Fighting In The War Room]

I need a EMP that can shut down the entire factory making these.

These people are now on my Hitlist.

 

[plastic_window]

These are the main parts that concern me.

I mean, I'm all for progress - and since sex is a big buisness, it seems appropriate that robotics should at some point address the most basic of all human wants.

But I don't think it's healthy for a human being to be attatched to a sex-robot emotionally. In some ways I can see why a person might turn to something like this, but we're not exactly good enough with robots to replicate Blade Runner.

Right now, I don't mind these things existing, but I find the idea of someone emotionally connecting to a machine a little disturbing.

People emotionally connect to simple unliving objects. To imaginary concepts. To fuckin' unintelligent animals.

Now do tell me, if it's such a horrible thing, how is it any worse then what I've already said?

I don't believe I ever stated that it was 'such a horrible thing'. Saying that I find something disturbing is a matter of my own morality, and I fail to see why that should annoy you. It's not like I'm throwing eggs at abortion clinics, here.

Although you do bring up a good point, I'd argue that an emotional attatchment to any of those things is basically unhealthy. Concepts, dogs, cats, robots, pieces of the Berlin Wall: none of these things can really return to you the emotion that you give to them.

True, in some cases the emotion is purely platonic, and in these cases I'd argue that there is nothing 'horrible' to be seen. But in the cases where people become genuinely infatuated with something that cannot feel the same way, I'd argue that this relationship is unhealthy.