Aiko: world's first sexually harassed, disabled Fembot
By Thomas Ricker 
posted November 19th 2007 6:56AM
posted November 19th 2007 6:56AM
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Sorry, I must be too ignorant to know what the title "Aiko: world's first sexually harassed, disabled Fembot" has to do with my point. By the way, thank you for responding the way you did. I think you helped illustrate my point well.
jimrin, your reasoning is not perfectly clear to me. who exactly are you angry at? are you suggesting that engadget's editors have exposed their own juvenile nature, or simply provided a forum that is bringing out the idiots? the editors don't seem pleased with the inventor, to me, and they don't mention anything about his ethnicity or language skills. you also must admit that a machine that reads to old women doesn't need either pressure-sensitive breasts or pretty hair, not to mention that blowup-doll mouth. perhaps you should calm down before replying again.
You bring up valid points... but the Engadget editors set the tone of the way people replied. If you compare the way this article was written compared to the equivalent Gizmodo article, the only comment the crack the Gizmodo article made was commenting on the android's clothing. I would make a comment that this demonstrates the difference in the target audience between Engadget readers and Gizmodo readers but really it demonstrates the difference in the editors.
LOL the guy seems pathetic, he need a real woman, and stop sexually assaulting that scary piece of machine. I think even the real sex offenders will be scared off by "her" or its face...
LOL
kinda sick, but he probably wouldn't know what to do with a real woman.
Fake!
"Why did you do that for?"
WTF!?!?!?!?
@ sdh
"At night-time he uses the "I-DO-like-it-when-you-touch-my-breasts-program" floppy disk. Oh, and guess where that inserts."
Best comment, ever !
Hey, he's Vietnamese !!!
You guys are right. Girls hate guys with money and brains....
And clearly non of you guys know how to handle a women because if you did you wouldn't be making any comments besides "Wow this could be used greatly in our society to help all those people I'm to lazy and ignorant to help myself!"
besides that one guy Jimrin, your all a bunch of tools and need to grow up.
Dexterinc is soo oright...
Trung don't pay attention to these posts, what you do is awesome and all these tards that bash what you do would probably be first in line to purchase your android once it comes out to satisfy their dirty antisocial needs, whatever those sick needs are.. they, are, after all, putting time and energy into criticizing something awesome out of pure jealousy.
KEEP IT UP MAN!
So he spent all that time and effort on a machine that acts just like a real female... at least I seem not to be the only one perceiving this as slightly cynical... yeah, let's built some hot fembots! And let's make them non-obedient, complaining and unwilling! Total no-brainer.
Wow. She speaks perfect Engrish.
You Wanna F-disk Bitch? Because that's where you're going to end up if you keep resisting. One more word outta you and I'll fdisk/format you into submission.
just kidding.....pretty cool technology!!!
Faslane
Great - a mechanical Jewish American Princess.
Except she's Vietnamese and is in Canada.
Pretty sure Canada is part of America but I'm no geography expert.
i'm already imagining some penis breaking androids
I think I saw this in an Applegeeks comic once...
http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewcomic.php?issue=151
He should have touched her downstairs
"I do not like it when you finger me. You should feel ashamed. Pervert"
Will it blend? Does she use Sony batteries?
Weird. His accent sounds more like japanese than Canadian...
It's not Japanese. It's Vietnamese or thereabouts. Le Tung isn't a Japanese name, and his engrish accent isn't of the Japanese variety.
Looks exactly like a realdoll...
http://www.realdoll.com
"Aiko"'s head is hear. made in japan. For adults.
http://www.orient-doll.com/top.html
so the first Canadian android is a frosty gimp?
Yeah she's just like a real woman - gets offended when you grab her tits rudely. My question is, WHY would you create an android who gets offended? You'd think he'd create a nympho fantasy creature who would say, "That felt good. Don't neglect my other breast. Oh yes, more baby."
Weird.
How perverted and lonely are you to not only program the android to properly respond to breast groping, but to also carefully craft two perfectly anatomically correct android breasts?
Domo Arigatou Mrs?? Robato
The creator is Japanese, and you can read more about his robot and see other videos here:
http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=1335.0
The guy has spent like $10k on that robot . . .
You have to be kidding... This machine doesn't have real emotions, it doesn't have real breasts, it doesn't have real feelings. I mean, why would a robot mind if you touched it? I think you could make a case for the robot defending itself in case of damage but, for a robot to be sexually harassed, it would have require far more. It would need emotions and ego. Our idea of why sexual harassment is harassment is based around emotional damage. I could rig a tape recorder to a sensor on the breast of a manaquin and it would have the same emotional depth. It's a series of logical states rather than true creative thought.
Furthermore, this whole thing stinks of a publicity stunt or worse these people are attempting to make a legal precedent for a problem that will never happen.
Excuse the rudeness but, will the microchip in a dildo all of a sudden claim sexual harassment? Will it refuse to send the current to make it vibrate? Will it be torture or murder to throw the thing away?
This is all silliness. This machine was programmed to be harassed in the public for this spectacle. Which is tragically ironic that someone would have program a robot to respond to what he defines as "sexual harassment" and then a response is programmed only to "sexually" harass in public to show prove a point.
And all of these responses of men who say that imply that they would take advantage of the sexuality of this robot doesn't make it any more thinking or the act any more sexual on the part of the robot. Hundreds of years ago, people used to "sexually" harass the knotty holes in trees. The only difference between then and now is that while we frowned on the men who "abused" trees, we never were dumb enough to give trees rights not to be "abused".
Making the mechanics or the exterior is the easy part, we should sort out the AI first before we bother doing the aesthetics.
Soon to be more popular than the Wii.
Dude gets an 'A' for effort, but I think he needs to go back to the drawing board with the AI. Clearly most of the dialog and actions were scripted (if not all of it). This is no more advanced than the animatronics they use in movies. But this at least it shows that the technology is not that far off if this guy can make an android in his basement.
Theres only one thing: Whats the deal with the Michael Jackson glove on her other hand???
This is simply a Candygirl, a sex doll that is mass-produced in Japan, gutted and fitted with electronics that are as technologically advanced as the singing trout one sees on late night infomercials.
An odd hoax at best, a scam at worst.