Comments on: Heart Robot takes cue from 'Wall-E'

This robot/puppet, which is made of soft, flexible plastic, appears to breathe, blink, flinch, and clench its fists in response to human encounters.

[RTFM]

Creepy.

[RTFM]

Too much like an infant skeleton! Creep factor 12

[jamalystic]

I read the following article on how humans could have robotic mates in the future but my initial reaction was treating it as a science fiction. This HeratRobot may have just change my views opn the issue: Synthetic Companions: Downloading Robot Personalities(http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=526&doc_id=155718&F_src=flftwo)

[julesrules4ever]

This is sweet!

[pmfjoe]

Wow, looks like something out of a horror movie. Of course perhaps it is just misnamed, perhaps it should be called Unborn-Fetus Robot.

[gsmiller88]

Yeah that thing looks too creepy! Looks more like a character from The Nightmare Before Christmas if you ask me.

[techchiq]

If it didn't look like such an exo-skeleton, I would maybe be on board. It should look more like wall-e!

[Frost7331]

Yes,having sex with a robot would be awesome. ROFL

[clrgj2]

Nice, now make it cuter so i can buy it !
and frost7331, get a life you pervert

[itstheoldindy]

Nightmare Before Christmas, indeed. It's a baby doll for the goth set. ^^

Frankly I'm a bit sick of the 'news' that a responsive robot can invoke human emotional response. Completely inanimate plush dolls can do it if they're cute enough. Humans fill in the blanks with their own imagination. With a stuffed animal you just have to use more imagination than you would for a Heart or a Pleo, but somewhere in the back of your mind you still know that it's not alive or really feeling anything. You can push buttons to make a robot or a computer do things; in this case the computer is appealing to the visual and tactile senses, and the input you give comes from your voice and hands instead of a single button.

Wake me up when robots can actually be shown to have emotions at least as complex as those of simple animals.

[og_gta]

this is true that people are filling certain gaps with robots, and surely enough its always best to have something more alive that will feel something. when something like this come out with a breakthrough, some people will trash it and say its just a robot that reads 1's and 0's to make a output of something and make a artificial feeling, when the real feeling is you receiving it. that's true but what if there was a possibility where we are wrong. i believe the reason that people say this is because of the years that has taken on from vacums and those huge ventelated computers to microprocessors going at 4ghz on a cpu. and now AI with feelings. its true that we are beings and we truly do feel, but i believe that some people wouldn't accept such a thing. they wont accept the fact that robots can do the same, in a totally different way.

sometimes this type of thing reminds me of the animated film the Animatrix, and the part im talking about is the Second Renaissance. im not saying that it will be true, but what it is, is the IF factor. what if robots come to the gluttony of humans and humans would do nothing for a time being, living off of them, and the robots working. some people getting angry that they took their jobs. anywho thats out of the subject.

my point is that if people are not accepting something like this and people will still react in a way of disgust or such, maybe its a better idea of not making something like this in a full implement, becuase something bad might happen.

as for filling those gaps with something robotic, my neighbor loves her dog. its one of those terrier dogs that cost her husband 3,000 dollars. i mean no doubt who wouldnt love their dog, but she treats her dog in a weird way like if it was her own son. plainly the dog is retarded, no education whatsoever. cmon the dog even barks at my birds for 5 freakin min. for no reason. and, like some of us know, that we should walk the dog daily. she doesnt even do it at all. well she is lazy lol

you see those are the people that might need this type of thing. the people that would feel lonely. somebody that needs some sort of affection to give to somebody else. that woman that i just told you about, she doesnt want any kids. thats y she got the dog. personally i dont like it, after all it bites me.... but some people it would be a benefit. and maybe give your children a sense of how to take care of a child like the way my science class taught me with a bag of flour lol.

it is true though that its best to have a child and family. i want a family myself when the time comes. but its things like this where people don't understand what feelings are. is it the way we show it? we give it? or the way we recieve it? how does a dog know what you are doing to them? does the pet know what you are saying? no but it does know what you are trying to tell them and what you are trying to do when you are educating it.

like i said, maybe it is best if people should not undergo these types of things. and maybe we should just leave it be with a OS and a good ol keyboard with a mouse and a moniter. and we should use those things for the better things like educate children.

i dont believe that its used to replace something or some1, unless that person wants to, but maybe its for something else that you should really really think deeply about. and maybe treat others like you would treat urself

[GMUHistorian]

I love this invention! This kind of development is just taking us further and further into learning what we can do with machines and how they can actually have personalities and interact with us on a daily basis. I hope I live long enough to see the day where a real working prototype of an android like Data from Star Trek: Next Generation is produced.

If you think about it, a machine with a bunch of 1s and 0s isn't necessarily all that different than humans. We are "programmed" by biology, genetics and our past experiences to react to situations in certain ways. In a very real sense, forces outside our control (genetics) do "program" us to be who we are, just as an outside force (a human or group of humans) programs a robot like this.

[og_gta]

thank you! lol thats what im trying to get to but its hard for some people to see that. and yes i really do love this invention too. i was so so amazed at asimo from Honda.

but its overall the thing that bothers some people is what they want and how they want it only for themselves and how human perception is at the utmost and yet we are. maybe its how robots are just replacing some things.

a good example is how in walmart or in home depot they have the self served checkout. personally i like those but people think they are being replaced and think they get fired . i mean some do, but just how people need robots, robots need us. its a sort of chain that people dont see, and only see the tool as something to use, instead of thinking that its so much more than that. something that could be living inside.

something like Steven Spielberg's AI! lol

[CyberMario]

nice robot!! is very interesting....

[factoryphil]

oh great. wasn't this prophesized in The Terminator? for now it has a little beating heart...in a few years it has a 45 longslide with lazer sighting and it's hunting down Sarah Connor. but it's all good - as long as tax dollars aren't paying for this stuff!!!