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Meet the Sense-Roid, a touchy mannequin from Japan's University of Electro-Communications. When you don a special tactile jacket and hug this torso, it gropes you right back. Strange? Verily. More »
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If you happen to live in the Cincinnati area, you could be in for the bargain of a lifetime. Some lucky soul is parting with his or her Robospanker (after finding a slap-happy companion) and is selling it on the World Wide Web. Are you in the market for a wheeled spanking machine? More »
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Check out this sexy/weird scene from Air Doll, a new Japanese movie that's showing in select theaters in the U.S. this weekend. If you're looking for an alternative to the Airbender/Twilight monoliths, Air Doll is a decent choice. Spoilers below. More »
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Researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have created a robot that can do a number of basic household tasks. It's not exactly sprightly, but what are you going to do — program the microwave yourself? More »
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If you could have a personal robot that did just one thing, what would it be? That's what futurist Mike Treder asked the readers of his blog, and the top answers revealed what we secretly (or not so secretly) suspected. More »
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A super-advanced female android is almost ready to awaken: she just needs a flesh-and-blood woman to have sex near her, so she can absorb the female energy. Or something. Luckily, her dorky brother android gets laid nearby, in this clip. More »
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So much amazing wrongness in this NSFW clip from Buttobi CPU. A malfunctioning sexbot attacks another sexbot and her master. The friendly sexbot can't defend herself unless her master upgrades her... by sticking his "active molecules" in her "rear port." More »
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At least two things happened in the world of science and science fiction last week. One was cool, the other was crap. More »
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Machete wielding man-machine Killdroid's lust for murder has been awakened by the love of a young high school girl. The new trailer for Killdroid has slashed its way onto the web, and it includes more body shots of the slimy android and the young "goth" high school girl in the throws of passion (slightly NSFW). Twitch explains that this trailer is merely a promo, specially filmed to jack up more buzz for the unfinished Filipino movie, which means that there should be loads more machete deaths in our future. Check out more Killdroid stills we posted last week. [Twitch] More »
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Ashton Kutcher posed as a robot being "tested" by his creator, in this photoshoot for vMan magazine with famous photographer Mario Testino. (See gallery below, completely with weirdly exaggerated robo-package in his briefs.) He says he got the idea from a Gatorade ad in which someone's being tested for their physical performance, and then he started thinking, what if God could test us, his creations, to see if we're fulfilling our function? And then somehow that led to him thinking about a robot being tested by his actual creator. Actually, his explanation is less cogent than that. But actually, Ashton's only the third creepiest and most inappropriately sexy robot in mass media at the moment. Want to see the two that are worse? More »
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The Western suburbs of London were a fantastic place to be a sad android fetishist in the late 1990s. Adult contemporary radio stations in two cities, Slough and Guildford, developed Sorayama-esque android DJs, Twinkle and Talon, who wore silver bodysuits, silver hair and (in the case of Talon) a chrome bustier. Guildford's Talon became so popular she did public appearances, endorsed Andrex facial tissue, and even had two backup dancers. And she also posed for some very bizarre cheescake (circuitcake?) photos, all in the name of connecting more people to Air Supply. Click through for more details and a gallery. More »
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A lonely nerd can't tell the difference between a psychopathic Russell Crowe and a chess-playing sex-bot, and that spells death for dozens of innocent people (including the sex-bot, who secretly longs to be murdered). There's probably a lesson in this clip — the most freaktastic scene from 1995's Virtuosity — but I'm not sure what it is. Maybe clues to its deeper meaning lurk in the way the VR programmer keeps talking about Clyde's "tumescence" while the weird computer voice calls out chess moves? Click through to watch another freaky Virtuosity moment. More »
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