Robot slideshow goes from from mopping floors to missionary position

Posted by Rob Beschizza, September 2, 2008 12:29 AM | permalink

Trendhunter's giant slideshow of "freaky" robots opens with Terminator sex. Though mostly free of such unpleasantness, it plunges through a bit of everything in robot-dom: pregnant robots, receptionist robots, insect robots, pet robots, the lot.

And yet so much of it detours to dark places, without even trying. It's as if there was something unsettling about the entire idea of crafting machines able to express that which they cannot feel.

79 Freaky Robots (CLUSTER) [Trendhunter]

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#1 posted by LogrusZed , September 1, 2008 8:36 PM

Sadly this image is absent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hmnicollet77.jpg

This is still one of my own most powerful memory impressions of robots, erotic imagery, and science fiction.

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#2 posted by Rob Beschizza

, September 1, 2008 9:01 PM

Future Power On Self Test there!

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#3 posted by WalterBillington , September 2, 2008 1:59 AM

Just to be pernickety, I can't abide inaccuracy. That's reverse cowgirl, not missionary. What self-respecting missionary would position themselves like that?

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#4 posted by Rob Beschizza

, September 2, 2008 4:28 AM

Missionary is available in the gallery itself!

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#5 posted by strider_mt2k

, September 2, 2008 6:30 AM

She's totally programmed to fake it.

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#6 posted by kaosmonkey , September 2, 2008 4:24 PM

Dammit!

That's the only reason I came to the comments page. I defer to you, Mr Billington.