In 2005 we watched the Japanese rollout several humanoid robots, which looked like people. They had mad some Butlers, Maids and Pleasant Woman Robots that could act as secretaries, home companions or perhaps something more. At the Tokyo Robotics show one company was handing out brochures for a secondary line of, well for lack of a better term; sex robots. And indeed the other companies with the maid Robots and secretary robots did seem to pay special attention to body features designing robots with shapely exteriors as their company greeters.
The maid robots too were well endowed by Japanese Genetic Standards and they appeared to be able to do all the things an iRobot vacuum could do, except they were much more fun to look at. 2005 did seem to bring us some of what Isaac Asimov had discussed with his characters in quite a few of his books.
In 2006 we will see this trend continue as the innate characteristics of man often th
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