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June 21, 2005
Divorced? How about a Fembot?
If you like watching re-runs of Data on Star Trek, Next Generation, you will like this.
Business 2.0 Blog reported today about a female android that made its debut at the 2005 World Expo in Japan. Apparently the android is named "Repliee Q1" and it supposed to look like a Japanese housewife.
You can see a couple of images here and a brief article. My curiosity got the best of me so I did a little searching.
Another site about the robot was found here which includes three MPG videos you can watch that show it in action.
I also found a bit of discussion around the web on it including one poster who said:
Look out, ladies! Fembots are coming to steal your men away!
Repliee Q1 expo developer Ishiguro said:
When a robot looks too much like the real thing, it's creepy, but if they resemble human beings, it also makes communication easier.
There are some more links and videos at androidscience.com that offer more information about this project.
I haven't heard any mention of the price for one of these yet, but I would expect it would be in the neighborhood of your house and car. ;-)
Posted by Steve MacLellan at June 21, 2005 04:40 PM
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