Creepy: Man invents female robot for companionship

Because he’s “too busy” to find “real love.” Yeah – right.

Why, oh why did I have to click on that link?

15 Responses to "Creepy: Man invents female robot for companionship"

NC Cop says:

December 10, 2008 at 7:04 pm

Whoa! I think I dated that chick in high school!!!
Baklava says:

December 10, 2008 at 7:24 pm

I like this line in the story:

“The former software programmer has taken out credit cards and loans, sold his car and spent his life savings on perfecting the machine.”
Dana says:

December 10, 2008 at 8:01 pm

Bet the one word he hasn’t programmed in is, “No!”
Anthony (Los Angeles) says:

December 10, 2008 at 9:07 pm

But will it iron his shirt?
Trish says:

December 10, 2008 at 9:11 pm

Thank you, Le Trung, for taking yourself out of the gene pool.
Dana the Trekkie says:

December 10, 2008 at 9:33 pm

I am fully functional, programmed in multiple techniques . . . . — Lieutenant Commander Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Mwalimu Daudi says:

December 10, 2008 at 9:55 pm

The robotophobes are infesting this thread.

Sure – I know exactly what you would say. “Some of my best friends are robots.” It’s just that you don’t want your sister/brother marrying one, eh? Or work for one. Or see one succeed. I know how you wingnuts operate – you cannot stand the thought of a robot in the White House.

Remember movies like Star Wars, 2001 – A Space Odyssey, and others that degraded Robot-Americans? Robots are portrayed as either homicidal maniacs (HAL 9000) or clanking clowns (R2D2 and C3PO). These disgusting movies reinforced vile stereotypes of robots. I thought that we had evolved beyond that.

Worse still – there are no Robot-Americans in Congress. Or governors of Bible-belt states. Or running Fortune 500 companies. Or serving as presidents of major universities. The glass ceiling for robots is still firmly intact.

I have no problem whatsoever with a man marrying a robot. May they raise a happy little brood of cyborgs. Churches should bless man-robot weddings. Hate is not a family value. Also, it does not compute.

All Americans should work for the day when we are not judged by the number of transistors on our motherboards or the revision number of our operating system, but by our DRAM and SATA drive capacity; when we can join hand in CD-ROM drive and shout, “Free at last, free at last, thank IBM Almighty we are free at last!”
Steve Skubinna says:

December 11, 2008 at 7:12 am

Oh yeah, MD, then how do you explain Al Gore? You’re not going to claim he’s fully human, are you?
Severian says:

December 11, 2008 at 7:20 am

Yeah MD, Al Gore winning not only the Vice Presidency, but an Oscar and Nobel Prize proves that the glass ceiling for robots is just a myth in this enlightened, modern time!

Jeez though, what an otaku! He’s got to be a hero to every smelly, video game addicted, dweeb in Japan and elsewhere.

Otaku’s of the world, UNITE! As long as they don’t have to go outside or talk to anyone that is…
Mwalimu Daudi says:

December 11, 2008 at 8:21 am

Al Gore is obviously a Horta. He looks like one (lumpy and shapeless). Like the Horta, Al Gore has gone on a rampage in the name of peace. Because of this the Horta is brilliant – the writers of Star Trek say so, anyway. And no one seriously suggests that Al Gore is of this Earth.
Lorica says:

December 11, 2008 at 9:53 am

My question is… If this man is to busy to date, where did he find the time to build his robot??? Sorta makes no sense. – Lorica
Anthony (Los Angeles) says:

December 11, 2008 at 12:07 pm

Simple, he spent all that time planning, thinking about it…

(Probably alone in the dark, too… )
Karmadancer says:

December 12, 2008 at 12:49 pm

Ewww. But how very Japanese.

Trish, I’m right there with ya, sister…..

— kd
Tango says:

December 12, 2008 at 9:21 pm

…what have y’all got against Fembots?
forest hunter says:

December 13, 2008 at 12:28 pm

Oh how things CAN and DO get lost in translation…..

Admittedly, it’s quite a stretch to understand or even consider how it might be easier to build a robot than date various women, but consider his qualifications/propensity’s and it makes a great deal of sense.

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