Korean Scientists Develop Female Android

[David Gentle]

> "'Humans are different from robots.'  That's an article of faith, like
> 'black isn't white.'  It's no more helpful than the basic fact that
> humans aren't machines.  Unlike industrial robots, the androids and
> gynoids designed as 'pets' weren't designed along utilitarian or
> practical models.  Instead, we model them on a human image, an
> idealized one at that.  Why are humans so obsessed with recreating
> themselves?"
>
> [...]
>
> "Can we get back to reality here?  I'd like your observations with
> respect to the Hadaly robot, model 2502, manufactured by Locus Solus."
>
> "Right.  It's very well designed.  I understand it's a prototype, but
> it's intended for particular functions."
>
> "Particular functions?"
>
> "It's equipped with organs unnecessary in service robots."
>
> "Meaning?"
>
> "It's a sexaroid.  Nothing to brag about to your neighbors, but hardly 
> illegal."
>
> [...]
>
> "Truly disturbing, isn't it?  I really understand.  The doubt is
> whether a creature that certainly appears to be alive really is.  Or
> alternatively, the doubt that a lifeless object might actually live. 
> That's why dolls haunt us.  They are modeled on humans.  They are, in
> fact, nothing but human.  They make us face the terror being reduced
> to simple mechanisms and matter -- in other words, the fear that,
> fundamentally, all humans belong to the void."
>
> -- excerpts from Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
>
Let me offer you this nugget:
http://www.zeppotron.com/unnovations/kissmammal.html
I wish I had a copy of GITS 2. Agoraphobia will be the death of me.
On the subject of this thing as a sex doll...is it possible for it to be too 
realistic? I.E would you just find yourself revolted by it's constant 
reminders of it unreality and just be put off? And wouldn't a prostitute be 
cheaper?

David Gentle