Built by Nobuhiro Takahashi and his team at the Tokyo University of
Electro-Communications,Shiri is the most advanced robotic ass ever made!
At least, I assume it is. I’m gonna be honest here. I’m weird, but I’m not comparison shopping
the net for robo-asses weird. So I might be wrong about that whole most
advanced robot-ass ever thing. If I am, well, allow me to go ahead and
preemptive-ly yield to your, no doubt, Superior knowledge of mechanized
hind quarters.
BUT… DOES YOUR MECHA-BUTT HAVE EMOTIONS?!
[There’s a sentence I never though I’d write.]
Well, Shiri does!
That’s actually the excuse behind this particular bit of creepy. It’s
about how the robot mimics emotions, with tactile transformations of…
Okay…Ya know what;
IT’S A ROBOT-ASS THAT TWITCHES AND CLENCHES ITSELF
WHEN YOU SPANK AND TICKLE IT! There, ya see what I had to write? Anytime the phrase, “Spank and
tickle it” appears in any description of whatever the hell it is you’re
doing, it’s not science anymore! It's recreation! And it's creepy.
Dog and man: a 30,000 year friendship
-
To the left is a figure which illustrates the phylogenetic inferences from
a new paper in Nature Communications, The genomics of selection in dogs and
the ...
We'll seriously miss Warehouse 13
-
Now that *Warehouse 13* has been consigned to the same fate as *Eureka* —
tying off loose ends and then going away for good — each episode is a
reminder ...
The Genetics of Mental Illness
-
The new Diagnostics and Statistical Manual, DSM-V, is out. Not
surprisingly, it has sparked some controversy. Psychiatry deniers are
proclaiming that this ...
Podcast: Sweet, Suffocating Wave of Death
-
After a hiatus, Brian and Justin return with Bonnie The Invisible Wife for
a new episode of Weird Things. Brian is dead and Bonnie is charged with
building...
Dr Christian Jessen's at it again
-
Last year I wrote about how real life TV doctor Christian Jessen didn't do
as well as fictional tv doctor Gregory House.
Background: Dr Christian works for...
Consensus on Climate Change
-
A recent review finds that over 97% of scientists believe that human
activity is contributing to climate change. That is a very solid consensus
of scientif...
BEER REVIEW: End of the World Midnight Wheat
-
I promised in Episode 166 that I’d review this beer with a bit more detail
than my usual quick spiel on the show, so allow me to present: End of the
World ...
JTHM signed headshot prints entering retirement!
-
One of the first items to go up in my tiny webstore, this print is
feeling old and its knees are all wobbly, and it’s time to say goodbye to
it as we put...
No comments:
Post a Comment