Never needs winding

03/13/2005 @ 4:00 am

Two Japanese companies named Kokoro and Advanced Media have developed a new type of “reception robot” named Actroid for the Japan World Expo opening later this month in Aichi.

According to the manufacturers, Actroid understands 40,000 phrases in four different languages, and is capable of producing facial expressions to match the more than 2,000 replies she can produce.

Now all of this is pretty amazing and I am sure that many of you probably already have heard of Actroid. But if there is one thing we have learned at JAPUNDIT, it is that the Japanese are very good at creating innovative new uses for products, and at combining features and functions of existing products to create new ones.

Shortly after we started up JAPUNDIT in January, we ran a story about the Lap Pillow:

Visions of sugar plums The right angle Get a grip!

Some time later we saw JOBA:

Ooooh, aaaaah. Jooooooohba!

Today we have Actroid:

I await your command, Master. Come to me baby

I’d be willing to bet that somewhere in Japan, right now, some innovative hentai is busily at work trying to figure out a way to combine these three products and create the ultimate in never-leave-home adult entertainment.

By Edward Chmura, Stored in: Cool!, Japan, Just kidding!, Only In Japan, Play, Sex

4 Responses to “Never needs winding”

catoneinutica Said:

Really fantastic website that actually seems to be run by adults, rather than the soiled children’s playroom that japantoday has devolved to. In any case, speculation about the never-leave-home potential of robotics certainly seems manifestly plausible. Indeed, one wonders if the whole raison d’etre of robotics development in Japan isn’t the potential of having an Aya Ueto-lookalike android greeting the weary salaryman of 2015 with a reassuring “okaeri” and a soapy rubdown.

March 14th, 2005 at 1:43 pm

JP Said:

Thanks! I wonder if they will equip the android of the future with a MUTE button. . .?

March 14th, 2005 at 3:34 pm

redeyes Said:

i went to the EXPO and chatted to the robot. She was shit. She couldn’t understand me at all. If she wasn’t so cute I would have been pissed off!

I never thought I would ever want to shag a robot but she is pretty sexy.

April 27th, 2005 at 6:15 pm

Fembot Dental Patient Said:

[...] her debut at the 2007 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo, Simroid is actually a sister of Actroid (who has got somewhat better then since invented a few years ago). Here is part of Pink [...]

December 3rd, 2007 at 9:26 am