The Doll Forum

One final aside to add to above. We are used to sentience usually meaning a combination of alive, feeling, intelligent,self-aware and motivated. We might find out that you can have any combination of those attributes without them all. An AI might be intelligent and self-aware but unfeeling, not aliv...

I think one thing tied up with sentience is being alive, having feelings , being able to experience visceral pleasure and pain. Those are all things other creatures can do, but most don't have the level of intelligence we are looking for. We have animal cruelty laws not because they are smart but be...

A good general read is "Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow" by Yuval Harari (you can find lots of him on YouTube ). JJ1yS9JIJKs Harari would say dolls are part of the human pleasure project, while medicine is part of the human immortality project. I think implicit in what he describes ...

A little late but for those with a philosophical bent I always found these two files an interesting read. Basically the author posits it is bad to force anything to act against its wishes and motivations (slavery), and to involuntarily change its wishes/motivations/belief system (brainwashing) no ma...

Fortunately for every 1000 "wait for the well delimited guaranteed experience" shoppers there's always at least one pioneer early adopter ready to brave the frontier and write the review. :drinking: Without them you wouldn't get the jump start or the eventual economy of scale that allows t...

Thanks for remembering! Been busy on certain ... er... projects. :whistle: Things that keep me up late at night but off the streets. I remember Doug Hines and Roxxxy. His problem is he needed another year but got committed to a no refund AVN visit (which ate up a lot of his ready cash), and then eit...

Engadget visited Abyss and made a front page entry! 8) A generally good article that may answer some questions (and raise others). :evidence: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/11/realdolls-first-sex-robot-took-me-to-the-uncanny-valley/ Near the end the author admits that Harmony had him hooked from s...

Showtime Season2 Season premiere/ Episode1

http://www.sho.com/dark-net/season/2/episode/1
http://www.sho.com/video/55579/ai-powered-sex-robots

Seems to cover the development of Harmony, but will be from a few months ago (documentary production delay and all that ...)

I think you need all those things to get the animatronics to work properly. The lighter it is the easier it is to move, the longer the battery lasts, etc. If you work on either you get spin-offs that are useful to both.

I think I found something that may help revive this thread with some :evidence: 8O http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/12/technology/robotica-sex-robot-realdoll.html http://www.nytimes.com/video/technology/100000003731634/the-uncanny-lover.html And remember ... the walls here do have ears :whistle: Comme...

Congrats Gordon on Lupe! When you get a chance let us know how her first weekend in her new home went.

A quick check today 6000 NOK = 986.63 USD. For her condition and non-major repairs she's a great deal, and will make who ever gets her very happy. Allow 200 USD more for repair supplies and a weekend of mostly patience. I had a 1st-pc I got years ago on similar markdown and personal pickup and it wa...

...so if we are to be left assuming one would probably think it was filled with regular air. It's there in the middle : "We modified the air plug on the back so that it equalized with outside pressure throughout the flight. The doll was just filled with air, but enough was allowed to vent duri...

An aside is that both current RD1's and RD2's are platinum-cure silicone. It simplifies their logistics and tin and platinum processes don't like living together, so its easier to just make everything platinum and live with the benefits in both. Or so I've been lead to believe...

One thing that might factor in could be declared value and/or insurance. I sent with insurance a high end laptop recently from the walk-in (it may have been FedEx) and had to do a basic verify of what's in the box because of the declared value. I could have skipped it if I had sent it from the offic...