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Robot Girl!

Posted: Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:49 pm
by Cameraman Jenn
www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2023392.ece
A BOFFIN too busy to find real love has INVENTED his idea of the perfect woman – a female ROBOT.
Inventor Le Trung, 33, created Aiko, said to be “in her 20s” with a stunning 32, 23, 33 figure, shiny hair and delicate features.

She even remembers his favourite drink and does simple cleaning and household tasks.

"Fem-bot" Aiko, who has cost £14,000 to build so far, is a whizz at maths and even does Le’s accounts.

Le, a scientific genius from Brampton in Ontario, Canada, said he never had time to find a real partner so he designed one using the latest technology.

He said he did not build Aiko as a sexual partner, but said she could be tweaked to become one.


“Her software could be redesigned to simulate her having an orgasm and reacting to touch as if she is playing hard to get or being straight to the point,” he said.

The former software programmer has taken out credit cards and loans, sold his car and spent his life savings on perfecting the machine.

“I want to make her look, feel and act as human as possible so she can be the perfect companion,” said Le.

The odd looking pair go out for drives together in the Canadian countryside, before sitting down at the dinner table, but Aiko never eats anything.

Le said: “So far she can understand and speak 13,000 different sentences in English and Japanese, so she’s already fairly intelligent.

“When I need to do my accounts, Aiko does all the maths. She is very patient and never complains.”


The fem-bot has a touch-sensitive face and body so she reacts if shown affection or hurt.

“Like a real female she will react to being touched in certain ways. If you grab or squeeze too hard she will try to slap you. She has all senses except for smell,” he said.

Le, a child genius who was put in a class for talented youngsters, made his first robot when he was just eight years old.

He began work on Aiko two years ago in the home he shares with his brother.

But the stress of working on such a difficult project became too much for Le and he suffered a mild heart attack in November last year.

“It was shocking to have a heart attack at the age of 33,” he admits. “But the doctors said I’d been doing too much.

“I may need to have Aiko look after me one day.

“She doesn’t need holidays, food or rest and she will work almost 24-hours a day. She is the perfect woman,” he said.

“People have mixed reactions when they meet Aiko,” he said.

“They either love or hate her. Some people get angry and accuse me of playing God. Once someone threw a rock at Aiko. That really upset me.

“But many people are fascinated by her.

"Women are generally impressed and try to talk to her. But the men always want to touch her, and if they do it in the wrong way they get a slap.”
I find this quite odd and a little creepy. If you click the link there is a video from before she got a body and a slideshow of her now... 8O

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 1:12 am
by matrixman
Odd and creepy? This from a person who chooses to present as her public image to the Watch a picture of her and her dog's behind? :roll: :P

Anyway, I'm on the side of the inventor. Long live science/tech geeks! People ridicule them even as their inventions and ideas shape our modern world.

And the kind of people who throw rocks and make accusations of playing God? Well, that kind of unyielding narrow-mindedness speaks for itself, doesn't it?

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:22 am
by Cameraman Jenn
Well it was the robot girl herself who actually creeped me out. The sort of vacant look was a bit eerie. :P It is an amazing feat on so many levels but still struck me as odd but I think it had more to do with the things he chose to program her to be able to do first that I found odd. His desire to build her and his skill in doing so are amazingly cool. You will also get no argument from me about my own self being odd. :P I freely admit that I am a loony toon!

Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 11:40 am
by Fist and Faith
Well, if she's good in the sack, that's really all that matters.

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 2:07 am
by lurch
...this is just plain SAD...rather than make real human contact and build relationships..Le uses the excuse of being too busy to go even further into non human relationship. Hes made his own personal Las Vegas..He believes the facade' is real.,,,Very sad person to behold.

Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:34 pm
by Zarathustra
Lurch, perhaps it is a bit sad. But so is loneliness. If this helps ease the loneliness during dry spells, it can actually have a positive benefit. Maybe it can be marketed to people with VD, who don't want to spread it to others.

I don't see how this any different from porn . . . which might be a bit sad, too, if it's a replacement for real human connection, but for some people it's all they've got. Is masturbation "sad," or is it a healthy release when you can't make a connection? I don't think this is a simple issue.

And there is the issue of AI. Personally, I don't believe we could ever do it without completely rethinking the way we build computers and software--an entire paradigm revolution--however, if the robot girl (or guy) is sentient, then the "sad factor" becomes less clear.

Has anyone read the Asimov stories where people fall in love with their positronic robots? I believe it was Robots of Dawn. It dealt with this issue of having a relationship with your robot.