Monday, March 02, 2009

In case you were wondering, that isn't Asimo.





This illustration (found here) is from 1951, predating today's product demonstrations of tea-serving Japanese robots. The bleak landscape and withered tree suggest the ravages of ecological collapse or nuclear war; that the machines will invariably rise against us at the soonest opportunity is a long-standing science fiction conceit.

3 comments:

Michael R. MacDonald said...

You see this is why I think I have always had a long standing fascination with Eastern ladies. If they can serve tea to a robot, my prospects seem even more plausible to me now!

Mac said...

If they can serve tea to a robot, my prospects seem even more plausible to me now!

Good point!

Unknown said...

it's probably not really a robot, but some jerk who uploaded his brain into a metal body so that he could make naked japanese women serve him tea in a post apocolyptic wasteland far beyond his normal lifespan. also also: maybe the woman is a nexus 6, and when that man's gaurd is down she's going to crush his head.