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The big Tokyo Design Week Expo just happened, and the big talk coming out of it was about an android named Asuna, which some think might be the first step past the "uncanny valley" and is really cute. Others don't think she made it and is really creepy. So here she is, and what do you think:
Creepy.
Not so much that the robot is creepy (it is) but mostly because someone felt a need to make a robot look so human.
Kind of looks like a Madam Tussauds wax work when it's still. Not too creepy then.
When it moves though..... It's the movement that invokes uncanny valley, not cute in the slightest.
Well, based on what I've been reading over the past couple of years, it appears that there are some issues with personal relationships over there. Maybe this is somehow tied in.
Son#1 changed his vote to "cute" without any qualifiers just now. Of course, he's got a thing for Asian chicks so I dunno....
Creepy.
Not so much that the robot is creepy (it is) but mostly because someone felt a need to make a robot look so human.
Cute if your sole exposure to Asian women was in The Grudge.
Um, no. People have the oddest misconceptions about Japanese people...
she is cutepy
Hey that's cheating!
Like it or not we will be seeing a LOT more of this in the future. There will be robotic girlfriends, pleasure bots, female maidbots (funded by Strauss-Kahn most likely... possibly a hybrid mix with the pleasure bot).
This is only the beginning and it will get a lot better, ... or worse, depending on how you look at it.
Also, can't forget about the manbot that sits on the couch, drinks 10w-30, and yells at the game. If you give it enough electricity it'll get up and do something the maidbot can't, or refuses to do.
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