Video Introducing “Protoclone” Will Make Your Skin Crawl – IOTW Report

Video Introducing “Protoclone” Will Make Your Skin Crawl

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California’s Clone Robotics has just posted a video of its full-body Protoclone humanoid robot, and well … it’s a wee bit creepy. The prototype’s less disturbing Clone descendants, however, could one day be vacuuming our carpets.

We first heard about Clone Robotics three years ago, when the company debuted its Clone hand. Like the production-model Clone robot that the hand will be a part of, the device was designed to closely mimic the form and function of the human body. More

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Note: Their stated objective is to create a machine to do common household chores. -Dr. Tar

23 Comments on Video Introducing “Protoclone” Will Make Your Skin Crawl

  1. Dr. Tar:

    Note: Their stated objective is to react a machine to do common household chores.

    Careful! One man’s household chore robot is another man’s sex toy.

    …could one day be vacuuming our carpets or whatever.

    Corrected “react” to “create” in original post. I was thinking more along the line of all the possibilities for horror movies and haunted houses. Imagine what “The Thing” would like utilizing these things to the utmost. Then think about what the military / intel community could do. It’s going to be a brave new world when they get these things hooked up with portable AI to control movement. – Dr. Tar

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  2. As if the decay of Western civilization wasn’t apparent enough, with the advent of sex robots (they are coming…………soon) many men will check out entirely.

    Modernity has produced a generation of females, so disagreeable, spoiled, entitled, and un-pleasant to be around, that men have decided the juice is not worth the squeeze.

    MGTOW is dangerous and counter-productive, and yet, men find it preferable to the horror show of dating. A/I infused sex robots will provide an alternative and one that will be embraced.

    Successful driven men who have their shit together are pretty much unanimous in what they want; an agreeable zero drama woman who can complement their lives, and bring peace and stability. If that mate is synthetic………….oh well.

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  3. No. And why the hell can’t our modern resources be put to solving real problems. And why can’t we invent and build great new things? I look around my home, the only thing in it that didn’t exist (in any form) when I was born is a microwave oven and a computer.

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  4. ^^^^^^^

    It’s still technology moving forward. And it is the private sector. Will they find a market? I hope so, for something other than a sex doll. But this is private sector innovation and they’re will be multiple businesses sprout off of what they’re doing. Not to mention the vendor base they support. Believe me this is all good stuff in the long run.

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  5. It’s no Fred Astaire, but it’s a start. The baby steps of advanced technology can be creepy and intimidatiing, but it’s inevitable. Whether the purpose will eventually be beneficial or nefarious. Watching the process gives us time to adapt. People are hesitant about new technology for good reason. The unknown of how it will affect us individually and as a society are valid concerns.

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