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Monday, December 15, 2008 12:00 AM

WTF of the day

A Canadian inventor's new female android is like the perfect woman, designed by a sociopath in 1955.
Kate Harding

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  • Monday, December 15, 2008 10:47 AM

    if you make a robot to interact with people it either looks like a person or it doesn't, if it does it either looks like a male or a female

    or some combination thereof. So should it look old, androgynous and fat?

    —dick dworkin Read dick dworkin's other letters

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