Gizmodo: fem-bot

Not Sure If Migraine Machine Gives Headaches or Takes Them Away

Wilson Rothman — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:00:00 EST

We do know that the metal-and-wood sculpture by Greg Brotherton is convincing, right down to its tiny anguished protagonist. Feel better, little dude, so you can go back to chilling with Brotherton's headlight-breasted fembots. [io9]

Aiko Gets Us Pervs Closer to Perfect Sex Dolls (NFSW)

Jesus Diaz — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:20:00 EST

Le Trung doesn't like women. Like Zoltan's Alice, the love of his life is actually made of latex, sensors, and pseudo-artificial intelligence software. Unlike Alice, however, she actually is sexy.

A plastic woman, but a woman. Aiko is her name and, according to the 33-yo Le Trung, it costed him almost $21,000 so far. The son of Zoltan, however, is not in this for the sex. He just wants the perfect companion, one that is available 24/7 and never complains.

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

Besting Zoltan crude blow-up doll, however, Aiko has touch sensors on her face and body, so she can react if touched: "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 also says that "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." To add to the realism of having a real woman in his life, Le Trung has maxed out all this credit cards, taking loans, and even sold his car for her.

I'll say no more. [The Sun]

Added the NSFW because, apparently, listening to "lick my boots" made some people nervous.

First Fembot Commercial Ever Heralds Imminent Robot Porn Market

Jesus Diaz — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:20:00 EDT

Those crazy Japan-addicts from the Pink Tentacle have grabbed the first commercial ever made by a fembot. Actroid DER-2 stars in a 15-second TV ad titled "The Woman Who Doesn't Rust", promoting an insect repellent and sunscreen spray. From afar, she looks hey-babe-how-you-doin' kind of good, but then they have to cut to a close-up and almost gave me a heart attack. Why a fembot needs sunscreen is beyond me. Lube after a few Old Fortrans, on the other side, it's a completely different story. [Pink Tentacle]

Insider Vid Shows WowWee Femisapien Fembot Knows All the Moves

Kit Eaton — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EDT

The Sega E.M.A. fembot we showed you on the weekend is really the WowWee Femisapien, and WowWee has just popped up a couple of "insider videos" of it in action. They show the cleverer parts of the tech, and get Femisapien doing a little swashbuckling: though the two 'bots are just going through a set of scripted moves, the end result fencing match is impressive. In the second video, WowWee inventor Mark Tilden shows exactly how smart Femisapien is at learning moves as you pose it.

While Femisapien's no Uma Thurman with those blades, the range of motion and the accuracy of the robot's pose-programming does mean this is going to be one cool toy to play with.

Interestingly Geek Alerts is saying that Femisapien will be available in the US soon for $99, which is at odds with the $175 we mentioned earlier. Guess you'll have to wait to find out how much you'll pay to do robotic reconstructions of scenes from Zorro. [Geek Alerts]

World's Worst Fembot Slaps Your Face When You Touch Her Boobs

AddyDugdale — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:37:13 EST

I can't see Aiko, seen here last week at the Ontario Science Center, being the world's favorite fembot — For starters, she's a dowdy dresser. And secondly, she will slap your face if you try and get busy with her breasts without chatting her up first. She's the creation of Le Trung, who has developed the B.R.A.I.N.S (Bio Robot Artificial Intelligence Neural System) software, controlling Aiko's speech, reading, math, vision, colors, hearing, automation and sensors. Her attitude makes a change from the last laydee android we featured on the Giz, who looked like a missing teen forced to do rude things to her kidnappers. Anyway, the poor girl needs a new wardrobe. Anyone like to help her out? [Project Aiko and YouTube via The Raw Feed]

Android Does Karaoke, Gets Bored

Louis Ramirez — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:33:14 EDT

It's been awhile since Korea wowed us with one of their robots, but we gotta say, their follow up to the Ever-1 Android is reminding us too much of our girlfriend (y'know, the one we've yet to find). Not only does she love karaoke, but her claim to fame is her ability to show boredom. So we're thinking of starting our own fembot from the ground up. Tell us how, dear readers. – Louis Ramirez

Rent a Snario Fembot: $3,500 For Five Days

Jason Chen — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 17:10:27 EDT

This Sanrio Actroid DER2 has more facial expressions tha previous Actroid DER, plus it's thinner and smarter (which is what really matters). She can coordinate her motions with her voice using pneumatic pressure actuators, and is generally a pretty good substitute for flesh-based Wal-Mart greeters.

She's not for sale, but you can rent her for five days if you've got $3,500. I suspect the first thing you'd do is to get her out of that Hello Kitty shirt. Imply what you want to that last sentence. For some reason we expected a deeper voice than the one currently programmed in. Not a Kathleen Turner, but not an 8-year-old child either. – Jason Chen

Bonus video after the jump.

Actroid DER2 fembot [New Launches]

Austin Powers' Fembot For Sale

Jason Chen — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 21:30:46 EDT

Would you like to own your own Austin Powers Fembot? Why do we even have to ask—this is Gizmodo after all.

Bidding on this original movie prop starts at $3,500, and comes in "as-is" condition. Which means you'd better be comfortable with a little Mike Meyers spunk in some unusual places. Sure beats watching the third film. – Jason Chen

Auction Page [eBay - Thanks Jonathan!]

Gawker's take [Gawker]