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Now you can have sex without even touching another human being! Yeah, this is one activity I think I've going to stick to the old meatspace/wetware paradigm for, sorry guys. OTOH I'm sure it's a fun device to work on :)
Sex by touching other human beings is a pretty risky enterprise when you get right down to it.
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I'm not sure how dismissing your post is meant to be- but many people in long distance relationships would love having such a product.
Yes I did think that might be one application, though I'm not sure how sold I would be even then. To each their own, and perhaps it would be better than nothing, but it would kill the intimacy aspect for me.
Now you can have sex without even touching another human being! Yeah, this is one activity I think I've going to stick to the old meatspace/wetware paradigm for, sorry guys. OTOH I'm sure it's a fun device to work on :)
Look at me, I have a girlfriend.
Now you can have sex without even touching another human being! Yeah, this is one activity I think I've going to stick to the old meatspace/wetware paradigm for, sorry guys. OTOH I'm sure it's a fun device to work on :)
What we've invented here is a new channel for intimacy that falls somewhere between a webcam chat and being in the same room -- it's a big deal!
--edit-- wondering why the downvote? This is factual. If you want to downvote my negative opinions then go ahead, but this stuff has been showcased multiple times over the last 20/30 years and never delivered.
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Yes I did think that might be one application, though I'm not sure how sold I would be even then. To each their own, and perhaps it would be better than nothing, but it would kill the intimacy aspect for me.
Intimacy is the name of the game, forget the dildos and fleshlights -- these robots "mirror" each other one to one in both motion and resistance. just using your hands you can push back and forth on each other and it's a very intimate feeling of being connected physically.
And sure, this is opening up a entirely new avenue on top of phone/cyber/webcam sex that wasn't available before, and marks a massive step forward in what's available when people are geographically separate.
THX1138, from 1971, depicting a dystopian future: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njfm7HKNSmM Note the machine! You can't see exactly what it's doing, but you can see the way it's moving :)
In choosing this problem to "solve" much of the effort has been put into overcoming these bureaucratic obstacles to be able to bring a useful platform to market that isn't just gimmicky vibrators. We're super proud of our accomplishments not just with the robots, but to be able to make this a marketable and useful platform that can democratize remote intimacy to the advantage of everyone.
The distopian conversation is an interesting one, and it's been a constant banter here -- but for now what we're doing is trying to bring people closer, not isolate them. This is a tool, a supplement -- not a replacement for real sex. Also, I love that we have to say REAL SEX now to differentiate.
John Carmack will really need to outdo himself to make the technology for this sort of thing actually viable and not just easy "what will those pervy nerds think of next" news fodder. We are many multiple decades out. I'm speaking strictly as a person who actually had sex mind you.
This reminds me too much of one: http://archer.wikia.com/wiki/Doctor_Krieger John Carmack will really need to outdo himself to make the technology for this sort of thing actually viable and not just easy "what will those pervy nerds think of next" news fodder. We are many multiple decades out. I'm speaking strictly as a person who actually had sex mind you.
I'm sure that the technology behind this can be used for something more useful.