I mean … with the possible exception of sexy dancing … does anyone express emotion with their buttocks?

We express emotions with our entire bodies – whether anyone is paying attention to the body language of your ass is irrelevant to the fact that you’re reacting full body anyways.

Heck, I’ve read and heard enough pithy variations on “his asshole was puckered in fear”, and understood it every time. There’s VERY FEW people who get to see my asshole in a situation where it’d be doing that, but it goes ahead and and does it anyways.

The question isn’t “does your ass have body language” it’s “Why is someone making a robot to express ass body language?”

I mean … with the possible exception of sexy dancing … does anyone express emotion with their buttocks? Has the phrase “Read my buttocks” ever been uttered non-ironically? Did Shakespeare perhaps intend to write “Your butt, my thane, is as a book. Where men may read strange things”? Have I been missing out on subtle and not-so-subtle emotional cues that everyone else is getting by close scrutiny of each other’s buttocks? And more to the point, what are my buttocks saying about me?

So many questions. The Uncanny Valley deepens with frightening speed.

I think using a hydraulic system would have been better, too. Air-power actuators are always noisy. A hydraulic system is much quieter.

But other than that, it’s a damned odd project.

Implied major: robuttics

Actually no I don’t. This falls square in the uncanny valley dep’t.

By season 2, his nemesis, and former love interest, creates a robotic butt implant capable of foiling our hero’s abilities, and then proceeds to go on a vindictive crime spree …something…something…

Never trust a big butt and a smile.

Now if they could only teach it to talk, it might stand a chance of becoming the next Prime Minister of Britain.

There’s no end of things to say about this. (Can it bend a dime? Make a diamond out of coal?)