Aiko, Le Trung’s Robo-Girl, Rules!
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Aiko, Le Trung’s Robo-Girl, is still in the news, and at least one commercial company seems to have taken advantage of her.
“British British tabloids are calling it his ‘robot girlfriend’, but a 33-year-old Brampton man maintains that Aiko, which means ‘Love Child’ in Japanese, is merely a research project, albeit a costly, time-consuming one,” says CTV.
“The fem-bot has been programmed by creator Trung Le to read, swat away an inappropriately placed hand, and speak about 13,000 sentences in English and Japanese.”
The headline to a p2pnet story read, World media swoon over Le Trung`s robo-girl, and occupied a top spot on the main Google news page for quite a few hours on December 12.
And she was still there today at 4:00 am pacific today under Scientist Builds Female Android from InformationWeek.
Aiko is cool but IOHO, she’s hardly a sex-bomb.
CTV also runs a video of Aiko its story on the android and by and amazing concidence, it kicks off with another robo-girl to rival Aiko.
And this time it has very definite, and unmistakable, sexual overtones.
It’s an advertisement in which a female robot lovingly strokes a man’s face in what a promo page for a model agency calls a “high-tech Ad spot” featuring a “hot [male] model” getting a close shave under the shower,.
Are you there, Isaac Asimov?
Le Trung’s Robo-Girl – Aiko, Le Trung`s robo-girl, December 12, 2008
CTV – Brampton Man’s Robot Girl Brings Him Fame But Not Fortune, December 111, 2008
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December 15th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Hello,
I really don’t see whats so, special about this robot. The Asians are making robots that are wayyyyy, better, smoother and realistic running, than this robot maker, wanna be. Even CTV’s Lloyd Roberson, didn’t seem interested.
December 15th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Lloyd Roberson IS a robot
December 15th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
This is special because it is a Canadian acheivement. CTV didn’t go to Asia to get this story.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
This is special because this robot is very pretty
December 15th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Many readers have no knowledge of research in robotic. This is only a implementation of the technology which have been existed for many years. I think Le Trung has implemented the technology however, this is not about researching.
December 15th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Asians that make bots that are smoother and more realistic are backed by government and giant corporations. This guy has done it with very little resource. That is called ingenuity. If I had my own tech company, I’d hire this guy for my R&D.
December 15th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Much ado about bugger all