HiDee TexasBro!~

Wife called for "Supper!" & then I dozed-off in fronta the TV..sorry for The Delay, Amigo!

I hit Wikipedia to research Androids...& we're closer to this lyric becoming Reality than I thought...the Japanese have already got a GOOD-Looking One (DER1 is shown, Ca 2001..& She's already obsolete..the 2002 DER2's more-svelte, it said!) "165 CM Tall, 47 Moveable Parts, changes expression, moves hands & feet & twists its body." Uses pneumatics.."Air Servosystem"..so varying the air pressures results in "very fluid movement & very little noise."

Not to be outdone, the Koreans have a 60-jointed "EveR1" with REALLY-Lifelike sorta-Vinyl skin, who's not only even-Foxier (JMO), she has the ability to SING and DANCE, Folks! "Weighs 50 KG, matching the average figure of Korean Women in their 20's. Vocabulary of 400 words..speech recognition..& emotions"...

"The South Korean Ministry of Information plans to put a robot in every household by 2020." "Several Robot Cities are planned for the country, the first in 2009 at a cost of 500 Billion Won, of which 50 Billion is direct Gov't Investment"...

The US doesn't seem to be making Great-Looking Androids YET..but we've got the Einstean Android, a joint effort by Hanson Robotics + KAIST..where one Co. combined their Facial Tech. with the other supplying the Body. The U of Texas at Arlington "also developed an Android Portrait of Sci Fi Author Philip K. Dick ("Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"'s Author) "with full conversational capabilities that incorporated thousands of pages of the author's work." "In 2005, the PKD Android won 1st place in Artificial Intelligence Award from the AAAI"...

So..they're ALREADY making Pretty Good Copies of Babes, Singers, Authors and Geniuses...(& I seem to remember Disney's already done Presidents)... So...get-ready for "Bosses"...in the near-future..(A Swiss Watchmaker, Pierre Jacquet-Droz, in 1768-1774 had WAY-prior made Automatons titled "The Writer".."The Artist".."The Musician"..& they're still workin' away in a Museum in Le Locle, Switz...just down the hill from my wife's home town.) Just read there's another Museum in Grenoble where "Vaucanson's Duck" (1739) has been re-created.."Over 1000 moving parts"--famous for moving along a King's Banquet Table, mooching & then eating a Handout...then gobbling it down it's throat..before either laying an egg...or leaving a little "Present" behind...& moving-on.

First US Patent for a Mechanical Man is approx 1863..for miniature Toy Robots. Earliest Date for Thinking about MAKING mechanical people: 1664, when Descartes published "Treatise on Man."

As Barry Manilow once sang.."Looks Like We Made It". (Gulp!)

Love, fortunately, still remains Analogue, though I've heard rumors the Japanese HAVE already made Female Androids that are Designed to Make a Man REAL Happy. (& that's as Pathetic as it is Scary, JMO, again!)

Thanks for Your Kind Visit & Words, Amigo.
Best Wishes & a Big Guy-Hug,
Longwinded Stan