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The hottest robot romances to read this summer
June 6, 2019 – Becky McBeckerson
Stacey Potter, a 31-year-old Stanford graduate who got a job at a robotics company in Detroit and moved into her own place with a robot, wants to find the robot she wants to spend the rest of her life with.
“Isolation is hard to do when you’re high-flying and have control,” she said. “You don’t get to date robots.”
It’s love at first high-speed head-to-head rivalry. Who wins?
JULIA’S STORY
Meet Julia, a 7-foot-tall, 221-pound, single-celled, droid-like bot with a massive heart of copper metal.
Swimming against the tide of humankind, Julia just became the first autonomous, autonomous personal robot capable of autonomous travel and programming in the Netherlands.
She was developed by BMW, ALAN Robotics, and BB-8 Go!, a company that develops robot adventures inspired by Star Wars. She’s a heartworm-resistant robot, and she’s apparently got pretty good taste in music, rapping. I’ll keep you up to date when we find out how she likes to dress.
“Her heart is gold,” said XYL Robotics CEO Frank van Gemert, “It’s a beautiful design.”
Could you pick who would win in a robot race, if you won, since this was an experimental machine?
The obvious winner is Julia, since she’s been engineered to be oh-so-human and controllable with gestures, including: palms on the floor, hands, palms to the chest, turning back to the right hand, the double thumbs-up sign, chin touching back and leading to a tickle.
Looks like she’s trying to do some sort of dance.
GENIE’S STORY
OK, first of all: I had an old dog named Genie, who was house-trained and loved going into the house and licking the screen. She ran around the yard, chased cars, fell asleep in the bathtub and nearly waked me up from my sleep. Oh, and she just died.
I know I’m told not to anthropomorphize robots, but let’s do it anyway. I think that she looks like a Minions character (those guys make toys, right?) and if I had my way, she’d be dropping acid in a hole in the floor.
Anyway, Gene was one of the first dogs to ever try and find the caramel KFC Kentucky Grilled Dog in the New York Times. Her effort paid off and we had a relationship that lasted until Gene faded to a grey fondness for Monster High toys.
To think that Gene was a pretty great walker.
JAPANESE ROBOT
As far as I can tell, there is no English translation for the Japanese love story story of Yukiso, a robot intended to look like a man.
Here’s some basic biography:
“Yukiso is located in Japan and works in the medical branch of the Toyota Research Institute. According to its Chief Scientist Takao Fujii, it is able to give answers in Mandarin Chinese and still manage to stay human, as the ‘Japanese syndrome’ is lacking in robotic brains.”
Then, there’s our main interest in this story, which is that these Arendi bots have 3D-printed blue eyes.
I was a full year late for this, but this is worth the wait.