A relatively new company, Buy n Large, has announced a developing line of robotic partners, called Roboti-Mates. They demonstrated the “Hubby” model in New York with a woman who had lived with the robot for six months. He acts like a normal husband, she says.
Sometimes he cries at inappropriate times and bangs his head on the wall screaming, ‘Please kill me!’ But I just quickly reboot him before the kids get upset.
I don’t think this will catch on, but I’ve been wrong before. (via Arts and Faith)
Strange, I find it oddly fascinating.
I heard a British scholar talking how this is the wave of the future on the Dennis Prager show a few weeks ago. I’m not sure if the fact that the man struck me as creepy and not a little weird tainted my view of this, or if it IS just weird and creepy!