It was made by a sex bot company

While Realbotix focuses on robots for the classroom and home, the sibling company makes A.I.-powered sex dolls with names like Serenity and Harmony, marketed as the “world’s most advanced sex robot.”

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    13 hours ago

    What exactly was a classroom supposed to do with an anamatronic mannequin anyway? What practical benefit was this thing supposed to have in an education setting?

    yikes

    People invest money in this? I should start a robotics company…

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      11 hours ago

      That fucking scary look like MEgan dolls from that movie. Yeah don’t want that in my house definitely not in my kids school. Also fuck the camera for not shooting the video the correct way.

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        11 hours ago

        I mean, my first complaint would be that this is essentially a surveillance platform, basically Flock in a human-shaped shell. Also it’s likely that it works essentially like Waymo, where there is remote human oversight to handle situations that are beyond the capabilities of the automation. That means that beyond just video, audio, and whatever else being sent to some corporate servers, there’s potentially a human in another country watching through those eyes in real-time. Even if those remote employees are well-intentioned and trustworthy, how secure is the access to that? How much effort is there to prevent someone else from breaking into the stream?

        My second complaint is just that this appears less advanced than Disney animatronics from the 80s. I haven’t seen any evidence that these things can walk, they all appear to be standing still. It’s basically a bigger Tickle-Me Elmo, with a webcam.

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      11 hours ago

      Embodiment of AI. Its a 60k sex doll so people can talk with a chatbot.

      I was actually super disappointed.

      Tbh a sex doll if made with sincerity could actually be useful for anatomy classes, health classes, in very limited use, sex ed classes.

      Its a cpr dummy that could talk! A maniquin with sex organs! You get a skeleton, a muscle only version, a nervous system version, endocyen system model, and BAM you have whats in text books in a series of models that students can see in 3d, move around and manipluate. It could reacte to students too, so immediate feedback on chest compressions or tell me what muscle this is, etc.

      The cost is stupid high so i think VR is best case for this for now, but that is super limited for first aid/cpr type stuff.

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        11 hours ago

        Yeah no, I get the distinct impression that this is investor bait. The demo models are just plausible enough to draw some funding (“this one’s just the prototype! next version will be better with your money! swearsies!”). It’s not intended to be useful, it’s intended to get VC buy-in. I think it’s vaporware.

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    14 hours ago

    To bring a quite sexual robot to a classroom full of horny teenagers… Yeah, that would be a great lesson for them xD

    Is Sally still available, btw? A friend of mine is interested…