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	<title>Comments on: Robot sex automaton&#160;art</title>
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	<description>Brain candy for Happy Mutants</description>
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		<title>By: bricology</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2007/09/26/robot-sex-automaton.html#comment-28161</link>
		<dc:creator>bricology</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Call me Cranky McCrank, but I think we need to stop calling any old thing that&#039;s vaguely anthropomorphic and animated a &quot;robot&quot;.  For example, the &quot;battle bots&quot; on TV are &lt;u&gt;not&lt;/u&gt; robots; they&#039;re remote-controlled toys.  A robot&#039;s actions have to be autonomous, not controlled with a joystick.  A welder in a car factory &lt;u&gt;is&lt;/u&gt; a robot, because it needs no human interaction -- even if it doesn&#039;t look anthropomorphic.  

Likewise, a video like this -- while somewhat entertaining -- is pretty weak.  Those aren&#039;t anything like &quot;robots&quot;; they&#039;re just animated human simulacra.  Why would robots breast-feed their &quot;babies&quot;?  Why would there even &lt;u&gt;be&lt;/u&gt; robot babies?  It&#039;s not like their body structures are going to grow as they age.  I&#039;d like to see the subject of &quot;robot sex&quot; treated with a bit more imagination than just some artist&#039;s posable wooden figures spray-painted silver, thrusting like humans.  It&#039;s not particularly clever, and it just perpetuates stupid myths about robots.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Call me Cranky McCrank, but I think we need to stop calling any old thing that&#8217;s vaguely anthropomorphic and animated a &#8220;robot&#8221;.  For example, the &#8220;battle bots&#8221; on TV are <u>not</u> robots; they&#8217;re remote-controlled toys.  A robot&#8217;s actions have to be autonomous, not controlled with a joystick.  A welder in a car factory <u>is</u> a robot, because it needs no human interaction &#8212; even if it doesn&#8217;t look anthropomorphic.  </p>
<p>Likewise, a video like this &#8212; while somewhat entertaining &#8212; is pretty weak.  Those aren&#8217;t anything like &#8220;robots&#8221;; they&#8217;re just animated human simulacra.  Why would robots breast-feed their &#8220;babies&#8221;?  Why would there even <u>be</u> robot babies?  It&#8217;s not like their body structures are going to grow as they age.  I&#8217;d like to see the subject of &#8220;robot sex&#8221; treated with a bit more imagination than just some artist&#8217;s posable wooden figures spray-painted silver, thrusting like humans.  It&#8217;s not particularly clever, and it just perpetuates stupid myths about robots.</p>
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		<title>By: Hex</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2007/09/26/robot-sex-automaton.html#comment-32117</link>
		<dc:creator>Hex</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is this the guy from &#039;Baby Snakes&#039;?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is this the guy from &#8216;Baby Snakes&#8217;?</p>
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		<title>By: Awemaker</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2007/09/26/robot-sex-automaton.html#comment-28040</link>
		<dc:creator>Awemaker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bizarro.  Just like real human sexuality.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bizarro.  Just like real human sexuality.</p>
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		<title>By: butiwasthere</title>
		<link>http://boingboing.net/2007/09/26/robot-sex-automaton.html#comment-28405</link>
		<dc:creator>butiwasthere</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i am trying SO hard to remember where i have watched this or a short documentary of it nearly a year ago. this is going to bother me ALL day now...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i am trying SO hard to remember where i have watched this or a short documentary of it nearly a year ago. this is going to bother me ALL day now&#8230;</p>
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