"She doesn’t need holidays, food or rest and she will work almost 24-hours a day. She is the perfect woman." I'm a white male, born and raised in the midwest, (where you'll find more traditional roles), and I find this offensive.
When someone makes a swooping statement on what men/women/people/animals/whatever should be like, just add "for me" add at the end of it if you don't want to be offended.
Take the following statements that would offend people:
She doesn’t need holidays, food or rest and she will work almost 24-hours a day. She is the perfect woman... for me.
Christianity is the only correct religion for me.
Homosexuality is wrong for me.
Having a job is stupid for me.
There is no God for me.
Etc, etc. It's an easy way to cut down on how often you're offended by at least 80%. Because let's face it, being offended means being less happy. The magical for me greatly adds to your happiness levels.
There's a clear difference between a vibrator and this robot: one is meant purely for sexual stimulation, the other is a replacement for human companionship.
Well, it's part and parcel of the existing gender roles. Men chase, women choose. Being chosen by women indicates a man has value.
Mechanized playthings for a man indicate low value (he can't find a real woman). It gives little info about a woman.
On the flip side, having many human playmates indicate a man has high value. It lowers a woman's value, however, both due to perception and for some intrinsic reasons.
Looking at the whole picture, I think men come out ahead: human playmates >> mechanical playthings.
First, I question the veracity of the article/site. Is it a hoax?
Second, assuming it's true, the article says this guy has two years and 14000GBP in this robot so far. For the money and the time investment, it's actually quite impressive.
Is it obscene to ask a robot if you can see its source code? As someone who has a high-level interest in component electronics/robotics/AI, if there was technical information on the robot I'd love to know more.
It's the age old dream of having slaves without the moral qualms of enslaving other human beings.
I rather suspect that a lot of men who think they would want a fembot would find them boring and unsatisfactory. And if you made them well enough to pass a turing test, they would end up being just as willful and obstinate as actual humans; and thus just as threatening.
There was a book on this very topic called "Love and sex with robots." I forget the author's name (and don't want to google at work), but I recall he went into a lot of depth that was backed by research and studies.
Would you buy a robo-woman? How accurate to life would she have to be? 50% 80% 95%? At what point do men swear off women when they get a taste of robo-women?
but seriously you have to agree that is some cool technology... i havent kept up in image processing advances lately (say last 10 years), but this is still pretty cool ... also to be fair, he didnt create it to "live" with it or to satisfy any fantasies...
