Aiko: world's first sexually harassed, disabled Fembot

Ok we get it Dr. Trung, you're trying to show off Canada's supposed "first android." But did you really have to go for the jiggly bits to prove your point? If she hadn't taken a swat at your jaw, we might have. Check the video assault after the break while we prepare a robot ethics charter for the good doctor.

[Via The Raw Feed]

[NG @ Nov 19th 2007 7:06AM]

scary looking piece of machine...

[Alan Partridge @ Nov 19th 2007 7:40AM]

I actually felt sorry for her when he hit her and she said "Why did you do that for?"

[Cash @ Nov 19th 2007 7:51AM]

Great, he's invented a handi-capable sex doll that guilt trips you, slaps you when you come onto it and then tells you to go to the bathroom.

Effin' Canadians.

[Adoniteking @ Nov 19th 2007 9:17AM]

yeah..he made a real bitch...i have one of those already..i think we call them girlfriend(s)....

User: Aiko lets do it again

Aiko: Am tired..its your 18th time tonight

User: you F**kin bitch!

[Adoniteking @ Nov 19th 2007 9:17AM]

i will reset your metallic ass if you dont cooperate..lol!

[Phil @ Nov 19th 2007 3:04PM]

Is it just me, or does the robot crash at the beginning? You hear the windows chime and then the robot freezes while saying: "I am the first Canadian android to make a public appear." Then the camera cuts. Whole new meaning to the Blue Screen of Death.

[Garrett @ Nov 19th 2007 7:06AM]

I smell a Pulitzer!

[Adoniteking @ Nov 19th 2007 7:15AM]

"I can feel that"...O_O?!

One small step for dolls...A BIG JUMP in the porn industry!

[Jonathan Keim @ Nov 19th 2007 7:17AM]

She's pretty hot for an android.

[Adoniteking @ Nov 19th 2007 7:20AM]

the funniest part of the vid: " i did not like it when you touched my breeeeest"

[zeke @ Nov 19th 2007 2:50PM]

... and also the saddest. there's a pretty weird model of "human behavior" programmed into both the man and his machine. and dude, think it through next time: what company is going to hire someone who submits unsolicited videos of himself molesting women, robotic or otherwise?

[BigD @ Nov 19th 2007 7:21AM]

Aiko: I'm starting to feel it...

LeTrung and the Realdoll...

[coach @ Nov 19th 2007 7:26AM]

"I do not like it when you touch my breast," she said after she slapped the dude. I'm sure this feature won't make it in the Final version of this thing. It's Japanese, remember?

[Richard Lai @ Nov 19th 2007 7:36AM]

Don't think it's Japanese. More like Canadian, and the creator could be Korean.

[BigD @ Nov 19th 2007 8:15AM]

That name is not Korean....sounds Vietnamese.

[south @ Nov 19th 2007 7:54PM]

'Aiko' is a japanese name (though 'Trung' isn't, i know)

and yeah, if i were going to go to all the trouble of building my own japanese fembot, she wouldn't object to me touching her breasts (well, maybe just the first few times, hee hee).

[Kiran Nesarajah @ Nov 19th 2007 7:31AM]

hahahahahahahahaha...... ROTFL !!! I couldn't believe this guy touched its boobs.... where do i sign up to buy? I know a friend who could do with a good slap everytime he did that to some bird....

[Silverfrog @ Nov 19th 2007 8:54AM]

For less $$, you could get a prostitute. Just don't forget your protection.

[Fank @ Nov 19th 2007 7:34AM]

He says "poops" instead of "proves".

[EvilBahumut @ Nov 19th 2007 7:40AM]

Uncanny Valley FTW!

[amadeo @ Nov 19th 2007 7:41AM]

f**k, is this really sexually functional? if so i would buy one!

[Cory @ Nov 19th 2007 9:31AM]

Because obviously you can't get a real girl.

[Paladin77 @ Nov 21st 2007 9:37AM]

which is better? a beautiful doll or a butt ugly real girl?

[Stallone @ Nov 19th 2007 7:54AM]

it's quite scary and amazing to see technology move at such a pace. I'm starting to believe we might have a more advanced andriod by 2030 coexisting with humans.

But like all new technology humans will find a way to use it for porn or the military. Which is a shame, i could see such beings used to help out the elderly or even for space exploration, sending such an andriod to mars? no need to worry about human complications.

I guessMasamune Shirow was miles ahead when he created ghost in the shell, it doesn't seem like a fictional fantasy, more like a future reality that could happen.

[LimboMan @ Nov 19th 2007 9:30AM]

Femme-bots come to mind when you mentioned the use in porn and military...

[Scott @ Nov 19th 2007 11:00AM]

Ummm, speaking as someone skilled in the art (or at least semi skilled), that "android" has all the technological prowess of a fancy light switch, mixed with some very primitive Voice rec.

Imagine if there were a bank of switches in a cockpit, and pressing them would cause a pre recorded announcment to play, and servo to move, say "Rudder left 2", and the rudder to move left. It would be neat but not that impresive. Well that is pretty much what is going on here.

A series of switches touch sensitive switches (one at least multi state) causes blind actions to be replayed. When the creepy guy touched the breast, it wasn't an aimed punch, just a blind sequence of motor commands followed by a canned phrase (that is almost guaranteed to be always the same, or at best minimally varying). A true android would integrate sensor data and make an attempt at hitting something, at the very least.

Don't be fulled by the "robotic" voice, there is very little cleverness here.

[billedluh @ Nov 19th 2007 12:56PM]

Yeah. A robot in space that can Wear Clothes is way more useful than the robots NASA already has in space.

[sdh @ Nov 19th 2007 7:55AM]

At night-time he uses the "I-DO-like-it-when-you-touch-my-breasts-program" floppy disk. Oh, and guess where that inserts.

[Rob @ Nov 19th 2007 7:59AM]

This guy's been having sex with robots since he was 4 years old? Who is he? Robo-Jeremy???

[J @ Nov 19th 2007 8:06AM]

I thought that was actually pretty creepy when he is bothering her. It surprised me how much I actually was thinking of her as a disabled "person".

[Ivor @ Nov 19th 2007 8:13AM]

Wow, he hit a cripple android. He must be feeling great! :D Anyway, this is great progress, soon we'll all going to be able to kick androids in wheelchares...

[Rynth @ Nov 19th 2007 8:16AM]

That performance isn't going to bode well for him when those bots take over.

[Kizul Emeraldfire @ Nov 19th 2007 8:44AM]

I, for one, welcome our wheelchair-bound, face-slapping female android overlords.

[L.Cyphre @ Nov 19th 2007 8:19AM]

Hurry up, dammit, hurry up!

[Fernando @ Nov 19th 2007 8:19AM]

This is an outrage! That man should be put in jail for that type of behaviour towards that robo-woman!!!! What is this world coming to when we have no more morals for the androids? As a member of NAAA (National Association for Advancement of Androids) I find this video and article very disturbing and sick!

President of NAAAA June 18, 2055.

[vadchen @ Nov 19th 2007 8:51AM]

Calm down, this man is obviously an Android himself. He just needed a friend who will save him from the loneliness in the world of humans...

[Historypro77 @ Nov 19th 2007 8:26AM]

Wow that video just made my day. Nothing more classic than a robot slapping you for grabbing its boob.

[Hollywood Ron @ Nov 19th 2007 8:36AM]

"It's my sex box, and her name's Sony!"

[Rynth @ Nov 19th 2007 9:03AM]

Fucking great family guy episode!

[Generic @ Nov 20th 2007 7:00AM]

LOL
waiting for the Sex Station Portable...

[fgpx78 @ Nov 19th 2007 8:39AM]

What's the point in having a Hot Female Android if you can't touch her breast? :D

[Silverfrog @ Nov 19th 2007 8:56AM]

What the hell are you talking about? Porn DOES help the elderly.

[metathuselah @ Nov 21st 2007 12:28AM]

Sad, isn't it? Old geezers need love too! :-)

[bret.collier @ Nov 19th 2007 9:20AM]

The name "Aiko" is a combination of "Ai" meaning love, and "Ko" meaning child; as in "I would like to make love to a child, but that's illegal, so I bought this robot."

[grimes @ Nov 20th 2007 12:00AM]

I think the name "Aiko" is meant to be "Aibo - but a girl!"

It's actually pretty clever, if it is what he meant.

[Cherub Laws @ Nov 19th 2007 9:27AM]

I thought the windows Behind that guy look Familiar it really is The Ontario Science Center.

I'll have to go and take a look if it's still there.

[Alexander @ Nov 19th 2007 9:27AM]

"Basically this is my hobby"?!?

Wow... That took balls. I wouldn't admit that I like to public ally grab and fondle a robot... I don't really care that is what gets his hard drive up and running... But daaaamn.

"I don't like it when you touch my breasts" is pretty much standard for all Japanese women. (I keed, I keed... Japanese women are hot-to-trot.)

[Jimrin @ Nov 19th 2007 10:09AM]

Engadget has just proven that you guys are insensitive, judgmental, and without value. (In other words, about the same level of intelligence shown by a 7th grader.) He built it from his basement for cryin' out loud. It helps his grandmother who can't read anymore. What have you done to this world a better place except to make and encourage wisecracks about a non-native's ability to speak English? (Rhetorical question.)

[Silverfrog @ Nov 19th 2007 10:33AM]

Hey jackass, read the headline of the article.

[Ryan Trevisol @ Nov 19th 2007 11:29AM]

Hehe . . . if that's true, then his grandmother has a bad case of the grabbies, and he just programmed a robot to bitch-slap her. Latent aggression much?