Sara Actroid

[Grendizer]

That's pretty cool, although it is far from being able to push my buttons. Some of you folks on here are lucky, since you want a more obviously mechanical/artificial android. It is a good first step, and many of you may be very pleased in ten or fifteen years with the results -- perhaps sooner. I'm pretty sure what I want won't arrive before 2030, and probably later.

I think it's been asked before, but I wonder how many of you would want an externally human-equivalent (EHE) android vs. a more "artificial" android? Would you want an EHE android with true AI, or a non-EHE with true AI? Would you prefer a highly capable AI that still couldn't pass the Turing test which therefore could be presumed to lack sentience?

There are a lot of combinations which will lead to the desires of some folks on this forum being fulfilled before others. Thinking about how that might unfold intrigues me.

[andoroido]

Scanned through their catalog (there's also an English catalog) for the robot head kit.
No prices, but traget is "industrial high schools and universities" so i'm betting this is a bit beyond an impulse buy. Rough guess based on the customers, maybe they're charging $10,000? Could be off by a factor of 10 either way though.

I just hope they get orders, make units, get cheaper. It's interesting that perhaps the first gynoids will be kits.
There's a pretty good business in Japan of selling collectible kit type projects through the mail. Kind of like the old Franklin Mint Civil War Chess Set deal. Recently many ads on Japanese TV for "build your own scale model of the Battelship Yamato" And over hte course of a year or so you end up paying about 5 times as much as it would cost to just pop down to a toy shop and buy it all in one box, all while a half-built model takes up tablespace. Kinda nuts, IMHO.
But apparently it sells.
And if THAT can sell, well, build your own gynoid is a guaranteed seller that will probably mean the delivery companies will have to hire 1000 extra staff just to handle the load.

Wonder which part would ship first in a gynoid kit?
I assume we can all guess which part they'd ship last to string us along, eh?

[PsychoKirby]

Oh! A new Actroid! Is this the DER4, or something else?

Looks great.