We've been freaked out quite well enough by the original
Acroid DER bot, but now Kokora, a
Sanrio Group company (yes,
that Sanrio), is busting out Acroid DER2 with skinner arms, better hair, and a snazzy little inter-Sanrio shout-out in the form of a
Hello Kitty tee. The Hello Kitty fembot, as this uncanny specimen shall be henceforth named, also includes a wider repertoire of expressions, which are supposedly smoother, making it more likely that innocent bystanders will be fooled, and hardcore robot/Hello Kitty enthusiasts like us will have haunted dreams. If you're man enough to navigate the uncanny valley, you can rent the HKfb for events for a mere 400,000 Yen ($3,389 US), which gets you 5 days with the fembot, though we suppose delivery costs to the US won't be cheap, and "choreography" charges do apply as well.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Yatrik @ Oct 5th 2006 9:17PM
WE WANT SEX BOTS! WE WANT SEX BOTS! WE WANTS SEX BOTS!
uclatommy @ Oct 5th 2006 9:32PM
Damn.. that thing looks so rea- Where is Sarah Connor?
uclatommy @ Oct 5th 2006 9:36PM
In the future, women are not needed. They will be replaced by robots capable of birthing live human fetuses. I, for one, welcome our robotic female matriarch overlords.
Craig @ Oct 5th 2006 9:41PM
I, for one, am getting SICK of everyone posting variations of the same Simpsons quote over and over. However, that was the least nauseating one I have read in a while.
PDubNYC @ Oct 6th 2006 10:43AM
@Craig,
Don't even bother protesting these stupid jokes, you will only get ranked lower and lower. You'd think by the umpteenth time people would be tired of this f'n joke, but no.
You might as well imagine a beowulf cluster of these fembots, or..
In Soviet Russia Fembot spanks you
etc...
ZRX @ Oct 5th 2006 9:52PM
Somebody tell Howard Stern so he can take one for a "test drive".............
Taylor Alexander @ Oct 5th 2006 9:59PM
I'd hit it. ;)
-Taylor
DudeinAmerica @ Oct 5th 2006 10:22PM
Ok, the video for this thing (http://www.kokoro-dreams.co.jp/english/robot/act/index.html)
freaked me out. The robotic revolution will begin in the japan. Those guys are inadvertently planning mankinds demise. Goodbye and thanks for all the fish.
Ferny @ Oct 5th 2006 10:40PM
damn I didn't know it was a robot at a quick glance. I thought it was engadget reporting a hellow kitty shit as a "gadget"(since as they posted the HK fire extinguisher).
by the way who is the target audience?
James Whited @ Oct 5th 2006 11:11PM
Screw the shirt, give me the fembot! I wonder, is she, "fully functional." Oh God, that sounded wrong.
SuperQ @ Oct 5th 2006 11:28PM
Don't Date Robots!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SFlpHHH9EIU
Jeremy T. @ Oct 6th 2006 12:35AM
Watch out it might explode!
pagercam @ Oct 6th 2006 1:11AM
Is she, well you know, ah, er, "fully functional"? Purely for realizm not that I'd, well, ah, um. I got a girlfriend, no really I do, I do. But if I didn't well I might just be interested.
uclatommy @ Oct 6th 2006 2:05AM
No, beware of the fembot. Last I heard, they were being deployed as traps for potential rapists. They are equiped with a cigar cutter downstairs.
Virtical @ Oct 6th 2006 2:53AM
baaahahahah tommy
well seeing women are phasing men out wuth the vibrator, why not build ourselves a robot woman? :D
checked out the video of her in action - cool.
Joe091 @ Oct 6th 2006 3:09AM
I won't be happy until I can have realistic sex with it.
Dan S @ Oct 6th 2006 3:50AM
Obviously, you've never taken middle school hygiene. You've never seen the propaganda film...
...Ordinarily, Billy would work hard to make money from his paper route. Then he'd use the money to buy dinner for Mavis, thus earning the slim chance to perform the reproductive act. But in a world where teens can date robots, why should he bother? Why should anyone bother? Let's take a look at Billy's planet a year later. Where are all the football stars? And where are the biochemists? They're trapped! Trapped in a soft, vise-like grip of robot lips. All civilization was just an effort to impress the opposite sex... and sometimes the same sex. Now, let's skip forward 80 years into the future. Billy's planet was destroyed by aliens. Have you guessed the name of Billy's planet? It was Earth! Don't date robots!
(Brought to you by the Space Pope.)
tristanfey @ Oct 6th 2006 2:13PM
"Ordinarily, Billy would work hard to make money from his paper route. Then he'd use the money to buy dinner for Mavis, thus earning the slim chance to perform the reproductive act. But in a world where teens can date robots, why should he bother? Why should anyone bother?"
Well, if 'Billy' is Middle-class it would cost him more than two months salary, just to rent this robot for 5 days. Putting aside 10% a month for the chance to "date" this robot would take poor little 'Billy' 20 months. But your right, he wouldn't need to work at all.
Me? A luddite? @ Oct 6th 2006 8:56AM
I prefer my women to have a bit of meat on them.
Joe Manning @ Oct 8th 2006 6:15PM
How much for only fiver minutes?
ozi @ Oct 9th 2006 1:45AM
amazing
Charles Wilkinson @ Dec 13th 2006 11:05PM
I, for one, welcome our hot Asian fembots!
hrdn @ Aug 1st 2007 12:25PM
In the future, women are not needed. They will be replaced by robots capable of birthing live human fetuses. I, for one, welcome our robotic female matriarch overlords.
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