Will Google Produce the First Real Humanoid Robot?

[dale coba]

Will Google produce the first real sexualized/sexualizable humanoid robot?

[xodar]

Will Google produce the first real sexualized/sexualizable humanoid robot?

That's the real question.

[dale coba]

Historically, the very first innovator for big projects spends much effort, but others may take advantage of the ground-breaking work. Perhaps the competition will look like the mp3 player, cell phone & tablet battles of the 2000s? or perhaps Google has the patents to stay ahead, ones which fundamentally matter; and the finances to see them through a slow adoption or successful competition.

I think we've seen the primary motivators behind so much progress comes from the military, or industry looking to hire fewer employees. Is there the sure money behind humanoid bots that can socially pass for human? Is there a Hugh Hefner, or a Bob Guccionne figure behind the sexualizing breakthrough. Maybe it's all after-market, warranty-voiding modifications that bring into being this first model-that-passes-for-human? Once society accepts the existence, Google can unveil that they've had a better model, factory sexualized, just waiting to swoop back and crush the market share of the first public innovator.

Google's so big, I wonder if any precedent even exists in home electronics. Maybe Google just builds and starts selling its own (properly licensed) Buffybot, Lucy Liu-bot, or Marilyn Monrobot, with any fear of backlash by Fundamentalists, moralists, and other objectioneers.

- Dale Coba

[xodar]

Will they be called googolians? Googolettes?

[Doctor345]

But if it is a Google robot, beware: it will probably report everything that it sees you do back to Google just so that they can bombard you with even more targeted ads. Their search engine and new specs both do this, so why would their robots be any different?

[dale coba]

Or: will security fail, and the robot becomes hackable?

Microsoft never rebuilt their crappy, low security OS, and Target is the largest of several stores forced to admit tens of millions of customers had their info hacked in December.

All our identities will have been stolen by the time Google wants to sell us robots and spy on us!

- Dale Coba

[Doctor345]

Fine, good for you, I'm more than happy to use the productivity tools generated on the back of your personal data! Add blockers work wonders, though!