An interesting Stepford tidbit

[Svengli]

A Stepford Wife Remembers Her Director Bryan Forbes

"The music became chime-like and eerie and the audience was given a clue that I was dead. That all the wives were dead. We were servants to our husbands. Slaves. Zombies in house dresses. Not wives. Loving wives."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carole-ma ... 83902.html

[xodar]

It's not what we want, it's what we get.
Technology will advance to the point where fembots are livelier than the average human female.

[Svengli]

Well...

I would hope that there doesn't have to be a unified "we" here, that this board is place for those who like free-willed fembots, zombie-slave fembots, perfectly natural fembots, "robotically" moving and malfunctioning fembots, silver-skinned fembots and so-forth.

That said, we don't even have zombie-like fembots now. As has been occasionally pointed out, the japanese stuff and Hansen Robotics and similar things are more similar advanced marrionettes than autonomous robots. A huge amount of progress in materials, actuators and software would be needed to build even unconvincing zombie that interacted semi-autonomously with humans. Alternately, discoveries in AI and biologically-inspired systems could speed up the process a lot.

[xodar]

True, we still don't even have zombie-like fembots. From what I can tell by looking at sites they're still corpse-like fembots. I hope the technology speeds up its development.

[King Snarf]

I just hope we never get vampire-robots!

[Corey Fantoccini]

I'm more afraid of the potential of Eastern Bloc Robot Cowboys!

http://villains.wikia.com/wiki/Eastern_ ... bot_Cowboy