A new lovely robot??

The new robot has been released. Which is designed by Robo Garage

"Very cute design like Astro boy, this robot Manoi can appeal to non robot fans. He can fit to your living without problem, and will be acceptable for women.

Well do you think this robot can fit to your living room? I don't think Manoi will be hot for women. Talking about "toy type robots", AIBO suceeded to be accepted by women. Actually I thought about buying one as a replacement for a real dog in my apartment. I saw women named AIBO, clothed AIBO and then had AIBO owners meeting.. It is completely the same like the love for PET. Sony will have to provide parts of AIBO forever for them? If not, they will have hard protests from those owners appearently. (Or someday they will throw their AIBO as garbage?. squash! Bye bye Puppy chan!)

Or if Manoi could be custmizable like dress-up doll? Blythe is very expensive in Japan (in aucition vintage Blythe cost 240,000yen,) but she is very popular to fashion-oriented women regardless of the age. Blythe owners sand down their doll's face to make "mat skin", then of course cut hair, change eye colors, trade handmade clothes, etc. Well I don't think Manoi doesn't have those factors (pet or dress-up doll) which fascinate girls. So this can be good for robot fans? I think one of robot's charms is cloddish, conscientious, hard-working like Tetsujin 28, Zaku of Gundam, and Landwalker of Sakakibara Seiki. Or I think astroboy(Japanese theme: ram), or Urasawa's Pluto, talking about real robots, R2D2 or Honda Asimo (TV ad) has some stoic mood, so they are dear.

"Big round eyes are pretty, price is reasonable too! Robots can get closer to your life."

They will say things like that, but it won't be so easy. What d o you think?

Comments

[Dan]

asimov was very wise.

he knew there'd be big trouble if we didn't program all robots to NOT kill anybody. (before he started writing things, all robot-fiction involved robots turning against their masters.)

unfortunately, that's exactly what the military would want. i think they're working on it right now: robotic killers. south korea, for example. i read an article yesterday.

[Mari]

Hi Dan
I agree, Asimov said robot can't kill people?
I think you really like robots :-)
when I was young I loved monsters of Ultraman, Kamen rider and I did not have interests for robot.

[Dan]

i like those robot pictures that you linked.

a lot of boys (and girls?) love robots. it's true. when i was young, i loved Transformers and Robotech. and of course when i was young, i never realized that all the source material came from a very particular place that i didn't know i was familiar with: Japan. (same thing, for all the videogames i loved.)

i don't like weapons or violence now though, and all robotech were machines of destruction and death. i'd like to have robotic fish exploring the ocean for us. or robotic bird-balloons floating around and acting as network transmitters. or carrying packages across mountains and sea. mecha with guns and missiles are scary to me now.