Is the fembot age started?

[Deep Blue]

The human looking fembots seems only in science fiction movie, but nowadays some humanoid robot take place. Like the Actroid in Japan, Eve R in South Korea. It seems not a fantasy. We are just closer and closer to the movie. I think that if edit the AI and the movement, it would be no difference between the Terminator. How long will it take the Actroid become Cameron?

[lucas]

many and many years we will no are live at the moment of this will happened are no noleger exist in this world unt l that happened only ours son and nepew will be alive to see this

[--NightBattery--]

not yet, but all the ""actroid" research in japan is pretty much a hidden developing program for it, i mean, all of them are female, coincidence? i think not.
Once a market starts frivolous robotics will boom.
and at last. we. shall. have...peace.

[DukeNukem 2417]

......as someone with an inside link to the ALPA, I can tell you all right now that the fembot age has already started. You all just THINK the Actroids are the top of the totem pole in humanoid robotics.....

I keed, I keed. Just felt like doing a bit of shameless self-promotion for next year's Season 2 of The V.I.C.I. Diaries.

[DollSpace]

Now I'll never get another boy or girlfriend....*sigh*

Cheers and holiday blessings,
Riina

[Stephaniebot]

I'm sure there will be plenty ignoring that advice, honey

[xodar]

Yes, I believe it has although of course there have always been fembot type artifacts like the old blowup dolls. But now people are actively looking beyond current technological limits, not in fantasy but in actual plans and efforts to develop more and more adequate models.

[Kube²]

I think it's not really about technology, the technology is not so far away,
I not thinking to something like "cameron" but something that acts like her should be possible.
The problem is about the market and the bussness plan for it.
Would you spend 10 year of R&D with 10 000 people to create a machine that cost arount 800 000 $ that nobody will buy with the exception of some wealthy eccentrics.
I don't think so !

[General]

To build a little bit off Kube....

Looking back through engineering history, fembots or any type of humanoid robot, will not take off until they go from a nice to have toy for the rich into a 'must have' application for the masses. And somebody will probably become very rich shortly thereafter.

Sometimes new technologies like this arise from an existing need or sometimes they create their own need. From my own recent personal experience, I see that modern smartphones effectively created their own need where one didn't exist 10 years ago. Being stubborn I kept my flip phone until about two months ago when I picked up a Galaxy IIIS. The woman at the Verizon booth looked like I had dropped a passenger pigeon on the counter when she asked to transfer my contacts. Up until that point I didn't need the ability to do anything but make an occasional phone call. Now I need data, and all kinds of apps, and a case, and chargers, etc. And that need translates into about another $60/month. You get 100 million Americans to also decide to drop that much money on something they didn't 'need' before and you can do some miraculous stuff.

I'm not sure yet whether fembots will come from a real need or if they can hit the market with a low enough price (still damn expensive) and a big enough wow factor that they will make their own need.

The only real need that I could see in the next few decades will be in elderly and medical care. Health care is getting more expensive and the solution (at least in the US) seems to be to pay doctors/nurses/etc less to make up the difference. If the shortage continues there may be enough of a need to back fill robots to at least do some of the more mundane tasks and relieve pressure on the humans. Someone with deep pockets, probably government, might possibly foot the bill to get bots marketable to avert a labor shortage crisis and make all those aging, voting people happy. Folks may not like getting a robo nurse, but a robo nurse tomorrow is better than a human nurse next month.

When you look at elder care the money can really add up. A nursing home can cost thousands of dollars per month. If a bot costs 800k (like Kube estimated above) it might actually make financial sense. I did a quick search and a nursing home in my area would cost about 100k/year. If we simplify things and avoid interest, depreciation, etc that's about an 8 year break even point. That still sounds a little risky but if you combine the economics with a possible labor shortage, a possible facility shortage, and a person's desire to stay 'independent' in their home, then it becomes very feasible. Heck you could have older folks selling their home, downsizing to a condo and using the profit to buy a bot or at least subsidize the cost of one.

I've rambled for a bit but the more I write the more hope I have that all these folks that will soon drain the Ponsi scheme that is SS might actually have a good side effect.

[dale coba]

Nursing homes and the military will dictate the hardware development.

Acceptance in our personal lives will be through super smart, pet familiars.

In The Simpsons episode "Replaceable You", Bart Simpson and Martin Prince created robotic baby seals which they named "Robopets". These were essentially Paro robots which were designed to make the old people in Springfield Retirement Castle happier.

PKD told us of the sheep - and we should simply accept the pet argument on his behalf alone. I think there will be tigers, and monkeys free of poop. Brian Griffin and The Lorax, searching your web needs on their mind-wifi..Consult The Golden Compass for further examples of familiars' behaviors.

This is to be a most mournful consolation prize, because we could not tame our greed and population.

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... and as fast as tablet computers became accepted, so easy will be the leap from pets and movie/tv creations over to the estates of late actresses and models licensing the appearance of a familiar face - and voice.

The after-market hack will be the vocal database assembled from the dialogue of Sara Michelle Gellar. Seven years of BtVS dialogue, all her movies. Sure, you can generate all that from bits, but to be sampling from all those familiar vocals would provide a very full and professionally acted suite of expressions.

- Dale Coba

[hypnobot]

I see duex Humana coming soon. But yeah the fembots will be here soon, they will propablly will not be so advanced as they are now but they will become more advanced and then social out break will occur with unions.

Hell Issac said it would happen.