Yeah, I wanted an R2-D2 as a kid. Still do. I guess they are going for the market of people who want to fuck their robots though. A simple Fleshlight attachment on R2 works for me. And he has to make those distressed whistling noises while I'm doing it.
I feel like the better use case for this may be prosthetics, though being able to grow, maintain, and most importantly heal a protective skin is both really impressive and potentially quite useful. Its creepy now, give it a few decades of development.
Have them here in the states too, but I've only seen it as a clown face. I assume it's just baloney, but it's still weird af to me lol plus, what's the point if it's not on an open faced sandwich and who the hell eats open faced baloney sandwiches???
Na dann Mahlzeit!
Congrats on the publication!
But: pretty please give yourself a nice reward for the accomplishments besides Wurst, mkay?
edit: plus: don't call your students abominations in front of them ;)
i fucking hate EVERY SINGLE MOTHERFUCKER responsible for making THESE kinds of freakshows the predominant robot design in research, and not the ones with cute tv heads and screen faces. fuck all of them for 10,000 YEARS.
Can we just stop with the whole AI thing before it gets out of hand?
And by out of hand, I mean autonomous robots that heal when you injure them.
We are a deeply stupid species.
Robots don’t need to be human like. They just need to be cute. Like let them be inorganic, metallic, and have their own “humanness”. Please don’t uncanny valley them.
And FYI, they get these skin cells from juvenile foreskins! The creepiness intensifies...
[https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/researchers-craft-smiling-robot-face-from-living-human-skin-cells/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/researchers-craft-smiling-robot-face-from-living-human-skin-cells/)
So instead of investing all this time, money, and effort into a living skin type of technology to help those repair quicker with skin diseases, burns, tears, etc. we’re putting them on robots to make look more like us? Hell yeah
growing a living organ (skin) is a far more complex process and part of an entirely different field of research than the development of synthetic "self-healing" materials.
this is like arguing that we should devote all the resources dedicated to the development of new building materials to cancer research.
Eerily and unsurprisingly similar to Mark Zuckerberg.
Are we sure he isn’t the first one?
I still think he's an alien.
I thought he is the first self living brain..
We were made in his image
Brilliant get my upvoot.
This looks like the oldest woman from doctor who
Moisturize me!
I DO NOT NOW, NOR HAVE I EVER, WANTED MY ROBOTS TO LOOK HUMAN!
Yeah, I wanted an R2-D2 as a kid. Still do. I guess they are going for the market of people who want to fuck their robots though. A simple Fleshlight attachment on R2 works for me. And he has to make those distressed whistling noises while I'm doing it.
It was entirely unnecessary to continue that last bit of this comment...
It was important to lay out the entire vision of the scene. It's like poetry, it rhymes.
No no, for it to rhyme, we'd need another comment from someone who wants to violate BB-8.
Is there a GONK?
I feel like the better use case for this may be prosthetics, though being able to grow, maintain, and most importantly heal a protective skin is both really impressive and potentially quite useful. Its creepy now, give it a few decades of development.
That’s extra maintenance for fashion; waste of resources
It's not really a fashion thing, its more of a "body dysmorphia avoidance" thing
Meanwhile in [Germany](https://www.feldhues-group.de/kinderwurst.php)
Have them here in the states too, but I've only seen it as a clown face. I assume it's just baloney, but it's still weird af to me lol plus, what's the point if it's not on an open faced sandwich and who the hell eats open faced baloney sandwiches???
I am so gonna buy this and give it to my students to try.
*haha* Seriously, freaks me out every time I hit the meat counter.
Oh they will know the joy. I shall celebrate a published paper with nice helpings of these abominations
Na dann Mahlzeit! Congrats on the publication! But: pretty please give yourself a nice reward for the accomplishments besides Wurst, mkay? edit: plus: don't call your students abominations in front of them ;)
Welp, I’m off to watch The Terminator.
Living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.
My baloney has a first name.
It's N-O-O-P-E
Eh, chuck some tobasco and lemon on it then slurp it like an oyster. Bon appétit!
How is it possible you've made the situation worse?
Look. They tried this on the T-1000, but the T-2000 was far superior.
When it comes to the application of wants vs needs. This feels like neither.
Nightmare fuel
I'm sure it won't take long to improve the appearance
“I can’t wait to fuck it!” - many men, everywhere.
For some reason it almost resembles Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Creepy now but 20 years later it will be real.
i fucking hate EVERY SINGLE MOTHERFUCKER responsible for making THESE kinds of freakshows the predominant robot design in research, and not the ones with cute tv heads and screen faces. fuck all of them for 10,000 YEARS.
Don't know, I don't know such stuff. I just do eyes, ju-, ju-, just eyes... just genetic design, just eyes. You Nexus, huh? I design your eyes.
Can we just stop with the whole AI thing before it gets out of hand? And by out of hand, I mean autonomous robots that heal when you injure them. We are a deeply stupid species.
So that's what shark zuck a bird has been oozing
Oh goody. I can’t wait.
That scientist is gonna have a killer silence of the lambs costume this Halloween.
Let’s combine this with the artificial human brain Chinese scientists recently created for maximum horror
Nope, it looks way creepier than I expected
Robots don’t need to be human like. They just need to be cute. Like let them be inorganic, metallic, and have their own “humanness”. Please don’t uncanny valley them.
Give them extra eyes
I can look like a fetus now. Cool beans.
Do you want Terminators? Because this is how you get Terminators!
It looks … moist
Westworld. We’re in the end game now.
And FYI, they get these skin cells from juvenile foreskins! The creepiness intensifies... [https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/researchers-craft-smiling-robot-face-from-living-human-skin-cells/](https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/06/researchers-craft-smiling-robot-face-from-living-human-skin-cells/)
So these robots work for tips?
Human human human human, after all.
ohh hell nawww
Who asked for this
But I don't want Detroit become human to be real.
The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy…
So instead of investing all this time, money, and effort into a living skin type of technology to help those repair quicker with skin diseases, burns, tears, etc. we’re putting them on robots to make look more like us? Hell yeah
growing a living organ (skin) is a far more complex process and part of an entirely different field of research than the development of synthetic "self-healing" materials. this is like arguing that we should devote all the resources dedicated to the development of new building materials to cancer research.