Funny website. But it's clearly a joke, if you do a 'whois' the will find the address of the technician in the French city of 'Anger' (which is actually at 1 hour by car of my home). And the 'Japanese engineer' have the same English accent that me, which is very bad
We have to wait until the june 4 to know what they have in their head.
Anyway, I tried to translate the interview from
http://www.homme.lycos.fr/minisite/la-femme-parfaite/
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The AI ROBOTICS company was created 2 years ago by Etienne Fresse and Yoichi Yamato. They are two experts in robotics, they are working on new state of art technologies. Since 3 years, they work only on their female robot project "Lisa", which with the help of many investors, will be out on june 4. The company philosophy is turn to the improvement of life conditions and give access to high technologies to most people. The company is based in Kobe, Japan.
Interview :
How the Perfect woman project start ?
YY : With Etienne we immediately became friend. Our robotics passion make us closer. Very soon we have decide to build our own robot. We want to integrated all high technologies, but we keep in mind that the purpose is to serve people.
EF : For me, all began with a book : " Love + Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships" by David Levy. I always think that one day the technology allow us to build a robot which will be capable of perfectly imitate human reactions. It’s what we do with Lisa.
Which technologies you have used with Lisa ?
YY : We created a technology called RKS "Recognition Krax System" which gives vocal, touch and visual recognition. Lisa can recognize an object, a person, even a flower and make the difference between a rose or a tulip.
EF : Lisa can also have a real chat thanks to her real time up to date database. She integrates all the current events in her system. We also work to have the more smooth moves possible. It’s possible thanks to the multiplication of PA (Pressure Area [Note : I’m note sure of the translation here]) which can decompose the move with great accuracy.
Can you give us some example of what Lisa is capable ?
YY : Lisa can cook with what you have in your fridge (visual recognition), she can also do your shopping, housekeeping, or do an hydraulic massage to you. But she can also play chess, video games (more than 390) and even do some sports.
EF : We conceive Lisa like a real companion, she is here for gives you services. She dresses by herself and she charges her battery automatically. You can talk with her about current events, voyages, general knowledge, music. Lisa have an IQ of 130.
In privacy, Lisa will know how to satisfy all your desires, We work with a famous doctor in sexolgy who gives all his knowledge in the matter.
For who the perfect woman was conceive ?
EF : Lisa is a real substitute of a woman, she was conceive for all men, those who can not find love, those who want a female companion at evening when they are at home, those who would like to someone take care of them.
Why sell her on the Internet ?
YY : Above all, we want "democratize" robots, but also give to the most people the advantage of improve the life with high technology.
When the online shop will be opened ?
EF : The shop will be launch on june 4, at this date you will be able to choose the type of clothes, the eyes color and hair of your ‘Perfect Woman’. You can already pre-order to be sure to have her in the best time.
. I totally understand where you are coming from. I would hope that the opposite effect might also be true, though, in that they would see a huge response to interest in fembots and therefore do MORE marketing to that theme. And ultimately since there is a market for fembots, actually think about manufacturing them. I realize that this isn't the company that's going to do that, but when marketers see dollar signs (Euro signs?) then they don't care if it's politically correct. They will find a way to package it and sell it. Hopefully we can just get some more sweet footage or pics out of it.