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brooklynite

(94,716 posts)
Tue Jan 9, 2018, 10:22 PM Jan 2018

Do they work for Bitcoin? Robotic strippers entertain crowds at CES

San Jose Mercury:

File this under unique entertainment in Las Vegas. Head to the Consumer Electronics Show, where several robotic exotic dancers are entertaining the crowds.

According to the Daily Mail, “The android adult entertainers are the creation of a British artist who says they are a comment on the nature of surveillance, power and voyeurism. … These strippers are powered with recovered windshield wiper motors and are programmed to move with the artist’s sense of feminine style.”

Unfortunately, they’re unlikely to be headed to a nightclub near you. “While they may grind and gyrate around a pole with moves like a real stripper, these robotic dancers are unlikely to replace human performers anytime soon,” the Daily Mail reported.

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Do they work for Bitcoin? Robotic strippers entertain crowds at CES (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2018 OP
The future is weird. htuttle Jan 2018 #1
Didn't take long for robots to be sexualized. nt Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #2
"Didn't take long" indeed. They've been sexualized for at least 90 years Orrex Jan 2018 #6
Check out her diodes! ProudLib72 Jan 2018 #3
And people wonder why women feel unwelcome in tech. WhiskeyGrinder Jan 2018 #4
That is the correct response, alas Orrex Jan 2018 #7
what, you didn't enjoy the pecks on the male robot in the picture? snooper2 Jan 2018 #8
Sex Sells! Your Lizard Brain at Work! MineralMan Jan 2018 #5

WhiskeyGrinder

(22,406 posts)
4. And people wonder why women feel unwelcome in tech.
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 10:30 AM
Jan 2018

No women in major keynotes, either, I see. BUT BOOBIES!!!!!1!!!!11!!111

MineralMan

(146,325 posts)
5. Sex Sells! Your Lizard Brain at Work!
Wed Jan 10, 2018, 10:58 AM
Jan 2018

Advertisers and marketing people have always known this. Even robots can be sexualized. Uff da!

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