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A Perfect (Robotic) Woman

"My name is Lisa"

BotJunkie

Posted: Nov 19, 2009

Although the results are not yet entirely convincing, it seems clear that a leading commercial application for personal robots will be as “companions” and/or sex toys.

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Paul Shin • Los Angeles CA • Nov 19, 2009

Is she from Stepford?

Eric Tatro • humanpl.us • Nov 19, 2009

I believe this is viral ad for Philips? From the Web site re-direct, I'm guessing this must have been a French campaign.

Even though that's a real woman playing a robot, she still falls into that creepy uncanny valley. Yikes.

ee. dorn • San Marcos • Nov 19, 2009

The need and desire for domestic management, maintenance, and general "wifery" certainly is not gender specific. On the other hand (heh heh), a sexual preference for a replicant over ones' own human counterpart must be an adolescent fantasy of the sexually repressed male. Rank and file, half (left) brained shimmy!

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