Thursday, April 06, 2006

ReplieeQ2, Android

Weird post over On the Road to Discovery. Those crazy Japanese researchers have come up with an even more lifelike android that seems to breathe, "...speak and flutter her eyelids." I know it took them a long time to get a bipedal robot to walk, but this is a bit creepy. Why does she have to be so sexy?!

Thanks to Issac Asimov for preparing us for the near future! Don't forget those robot rules, baby!
  1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
  2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
  3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
Wasn't there a fourth rule added by Asimov at some point after the death of a fictional character? Gotta remember...I'm going out for drinkies with Repliee-baby Friday night.

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