What the crap is this crap.

[JoshuaD]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4714135.stm

Here are some gems:

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Before [this adult female robot], Professor Ishiguro developed Repliee R1 which had the appearance of a five-year-old Japanese girl.

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"More importantly, we have found that people forget she is an android while interacting with her. Consciously, it is easy to see that she is an android, but unconsciously, we react to the android as if she were a woman."

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[krazyace5]

Whats wrong with that? Seems pretty cool to me.

[langley11]

Haha, I saw this on TV a month ago...it was crazy!!! The robot looked totally screwed up.

[TheIrishThug]

those quotes, taken out of context, can sounds somewhat perverted, as u r implying. however, the point is u had to take them out of context.

what they r doing is really amazing. however, in the future when robots r close to the norm, do we really want human-like robots. i think it might be to easily exploited for bad as some ppl always decided to do with new tech.

[Freakin]

The chick in that article is pretty hot.

Freakin