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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.
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.
Posted by ee. dorn on 11/19 at 04:20 PM
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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