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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looks like mark zuckerburg

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Life imitates art

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (5 children)

JFC just give it an LCD screen head that makes emojis and knock this uncanny valley shit off. I'd rather have Codsworth or R2D2 than this homunculus or some latex-faced simulacrum.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What about Kevin Spacey in a robot on the moon?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'd be beside myself.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

You say thSt until you can print off Natalie Dormer and a clone of the former and stick your dick in it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

R2D2

I think prince Xizor had a fuckable bodyguard droid in the EU. But in general employing living beings was cheaper.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (9 children)

...but...why? What is the point of living skin on machines? Even humans do everything they can to make their skin not look human :D

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human - sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

So you can send the robot back in time, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

So they can use time machines that somehow only work for living matter

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It would be cool if somebody missing an arm could get a cybernetic replacement that looks and feels real.

That's the only situation I can imagine where maintaining a living skin is worth the cost. I can't even keep plants alive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Looks and feels real? I’m sorry but if i’m getting a cyberpunk upgrade it will be gold, chrome, or matte neon plastic. There are no other options ya gonk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

robot girlfriend duh

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

From the article

Cultured skin, as they put it, can heal itself, carry biological sensors like our own to provide sensitive touch, and could also have benefits in medical or human interaction contexts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Skin is extremely flexible,water proof and self-repairable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The self-repairable part is odd to me.You need to keep feeding, oxygenating it and to prevent infections, otherwise it will rot :S Besides, on humans the healing relies on blood for platelets and crusts to form and a whole immune system...it needs too much babysitting to be called "self-healing".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

But it does heal. Efficiently be damned. That's not what you care about with mad science. Results are all that matter in mad science, good results or bad results you just have an insatiable desire to see what happens if

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I guess there's a market for... skin contact?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So they can build a cybernetic organism. Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

synthetic playmates..got it 👯

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If the Internet has taught me anything... I know someone out there took one look and said 'imma fuck this thing. '

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Right! There's even a Stross about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

34 is "there is porn of everything, no exceptions".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

That's a boring cover of a description.

If it exists, there is porn of it

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

I can't wait for them to make a vagina next.

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