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Noddaz GRM+ Memberand PowerDork
6/26/24 9:03 a.m.

Faces made of living skin make robots smile

That's right boy's and girls! Need to make a robot creepy looking? Give it live skin for a face!

Ian F (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
6/26/24 9:06 a.m.

As we get ever closer to robots taking over...

Appleseed MegaDork
6/26/24 9:12 a.m.

Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!

David S. Wallens Editorial Director
6/26/24 9:25 a.m.

In reply to Appleseed :

Yup.

Beer Baron 🍺 MegaDork
6/26/24 10:16 a.m.

Moisturize me!

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JG Pasterjak Production/Art Director
6/26/24 1:11 p.m.

This summer '24 Fleshlight lineup is wild.

aircooled MegaDork
6/26/24 2:05 p.m.

Why would you WANT a robot to look human!? They are, you know, NOT.

1kris06 HalfDork
6/26/24 2:26 p.m.

aircooled said:
Why would you WANT a robot to look human!? They are, you know, NOT.

All the easier to blend in

NickD MegaDork
6/26/24 2:53 p.m.

I'm getting M3GAN vibes.

J.A. Ackley Senior Editor
6/26/24 4:36 p.m.

Man, I can't unsee that. That'll be the face I picture for AI for a while.

Colin Wood Associate Editor
6/26/24 4:47 p.m.

Noddaz said:

Thanks, I hate it.

JG Pasterjak said:

This summer '24 Fleshlight lineup is wild.

Thanks, I hate this even more.

jharry3 GRM+ Memberand Dork
6/26/24 4:56 p.m.

If they go outside will they need sun screen?

dean1484 GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
6/26/24 7:53 p.m.

Looks like the stay-puff marshmallow man gone really wrong.

Jay_W SuperDork
6/26/24 8:17 p.m.

What gets me is that a whole bunch of people not only signed off on this, but watched it move through production and DIDN'T say "hey wait just one minute"

Appleseed MegaDork
6/26/24 8:19 p.m.

1kris06 said:
aircooled said:
Why would you WANT a robot to look human!? They are, you know, NOT.

All the easier to blend in

The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot.

RX Reven' GRM+ Memberand UberDork
6/26/24 8:38 p.m.

We're about to have lab grown meat on the supermarket shelves so the logical next step is to have the product sell itself..."eat me"...I"m best when cooked at 350 for 25 minutes"...."brand X will give you the E36 M3's".

P3PPY GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
6/26/24 11:20 p.m.

It may have been Asimov who explored the idea of the down side of making robots more human-like was that we can treat them like crap and thus dull our sensitivity to treating other real humans like crap

stuart in mn MegaDork
6/27/24 12:15 a.m.

aircooled said:
Why would you WANT a robot to look human!? They are, you know, NOT.

I think their end goal is robot hookers.

Oapfu GRM+ Memberand Reader
6/27/24 12:38 a.m.

RX Reven' said:
We're about to have lab grown meat on the supermarket shelves so the logical next step is to have the product sell itself..."eat me"...I"m best when cooked at 350 for 25 minutes"...."brand X will give you the E36 M3's".

Douglas Adams' cow from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEPkIeEaxT8