Each year billions upon billions of yen, dollars and pounds are spent on the development of robotics and the advancement of A.I (artificial intelligence). Japanese scientists, working 95 hour weeks, living in their white coats and going months without seeing the light of day have bent their incredible talents towards producing the most advanced, intelligent and cognitive machines in the world. Thus far, it seems that the crowning achievement to come out of the worlds greatest minds is the little black box that wheels around your front room and hoovers up by itself. From what I can tell its basically a hoover, with parking sensors. Brilliant. life changing.
STOP THE PRESS!!!!
A Japanese man in Canada has built the worlds first fully operational female woman replacement robot. In his basement. From spare parts. She has been built without the aid of huge governmental backing in fact Le Trung, the hapless inventor sold his house and car to pay for her - in the process nearly killing himself through a heart attack at the age of 33. And his motivation for producing this female robot? He was too busy to find love. Of course you were too busy, you've spent 5 years of your life holed up in a basement, making a robot!!!! Perhaps if you hadn't have started the robot, you could have had time to socialise.
Irony aside, the robot is potentially the most advanced bit of robotics the scientific community have come across, which in itself is impressive, when you think how limited his resources were. 'Aiko' as she is known, can recognise and respond to over 13,000 Japanese and English spoken sentences. She can perform household duties such as cleaning and washing. She can read out loud from written instructions and books. She can do your accounts. And importantly for a small, rather strange bespeckled scientist who, as a child genius at 8 years old built his first robot then spent the vast majority of his adult life in a small dark basement developing 'Aiko' at the expense of any kind of 'human' social interaction - she could potentially be developed into a machine capable of initiating and responding to sexual advances and indeed, actually getting down and dirty complete with audio and physical responses. She is 99% of the way there at the moment as any sexual advancement made to 'Aiko' is answered with a curt no and a open palmed slap. No wonder he is investing so much time and effort into it. Rather strangely, as you will see from the picture, 'Aiko' has the appearance of a 12 year old girl.
STOP THE PRESS!!!!
A Japanese man in Canada has built the worlds first fully operational female woman replacement robot. In his basement. From spare parts. She has been built without the aid of huge governmental backing in fact Le Trung, the hapless inventor sold his house and car to pay for her - in the process nearly killing himself through a heart attack at the age of 33. And his motivation for producing this female robot? He was too busy to find love. Of course you were too busy, you've spent 5 years of your life holed up in a basement, making a robot!!!! Perhaps if you hadn't have started the robot, you could have had time to socialise.
Irony aside, the robot is potentially the most advanced bit of robotics the scientific community have come across, which in itself is impressive, when you think how limited his resources were. 'Aiko' as she is known, can recognise and respond to over 13,000 Japanese and English spoken sentences. She can perform household duties such as cleaning and washing. She can read out loud from written instructions and books. She can do your accounts. And importantly for a small, rather strange bespeckled scientist who, as a child genius at 8 years old built his first robot then spent the vast majority of his adult life in a small dark basement developing 'Aiko' at the expense of any kind of 'human' social interaction - she could potentially be developed into a machine capable of initiating and responding to sexual advances and indeed, actually getting down and dirty complete with audio and physical responses. She is 99% of the way there at the moment as any sexual advancement made to 'Aiko' is answered with a curt no and a open palmed slap. No wonder he is investing so much time and effort into it. Rather strangely, as you will see from the picture, 'Aiko' has the appearance of a 12 year old girl.
