The Sapphire Gentleman's Club has rented an artist's robot strippers to draw some of the attention and press surrounding the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas:
The robots were as advertised: They gyrated on a stripper pole to music from 50 Cent and Pharrell, with dollar bills scattered on the stage and the floor. A half-dozen human dancers, most of whom were dressed in tight, shiny robot costumes, repeatedly took pics in front of their metallic colleagues. (The woman greeting guests as I walked in told me that I missed a skit where the human dancers unveiled the robot dancers to "Star Wars" music, and then joked about them stealing their jobs.)
The robots look nothing like actual humans, thank God. They had CCTV security cameras for faces, and you could see their metal interiors and wires as they moved up and down the pole. (They were, however, wearing high heels.)
And unlike many of the big tech gimmicks you'll hear about this week from CES, the robot pole-dancers aren't courtesy of a massive multi-billion dollar corporation. They're the work of an artist named Giles Walker, a 50-year-old Brit who describes himself as a scrap metal artist with a passion for building animatronic robots. One of his other projects, The Last Supper, features 13 robots interacting around a table.
Walker says he got the idea for pole-dancing robots more than seven years ago, when he noticed the rise of CCTV cameras being used as a way to surveil people in Britain for safety purposes, what he called "mechanical Peeping Toms." He was inspired by the idea of voyeurism, or watching others for pleasure, and decided to try and turn the cameras into something sexy on their own.
Walker goes on to express concerns about the eventual rise of sex robots, and describes himself as a "robot pimp".
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Source: [H]ardOCP: Robot Strippers Return at CES 2018 (Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard)
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Thursday January 11 2018, @02:35PM (8 children)
n/t
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday January 11 2018, @02:39PM
Hahahah.
Here's some sexbot links. Likely part of the CES hype:
https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/10/there-s-a-new-sex-robot-in-town-say-hello-to-solana/ [engadget.com]
https://www.her.ie/tech/good-news-male-sex-robots-bionic-penises-will-available-soon-383121 [www.her.ie]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5257099/Harmony-sexbot-inventor-unveils-new-personality-Solana.html [dailymail.co.uk]
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/673208/Sex-robot-Harmony-Solana-sex-doll-RealDoll-Matt-McMulle-CES-Engadget-After-Hours-show [dailystar.co.uk]
Brit tabloids do one thing right: pics.
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(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 11 2018, @02:39PM (4 children)
I dunno about that but this is one particular field where the workers are in very little danger of having their jobs taken by robots.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 11 2018, @04:06PM (3 children)
I dunno, when the first sex robots come out they will likely be out of the range of affordability for most. You'll probably see strip clubs become robot brothels.
Besides, the owners probably salivate at the idea of taking all the tip money.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 11 2018, @04:34PM (2 children)
Big difference between a strip joint and a brothel.
Nudie bars, you're not paying to get off, you're paying to get worked up. Likely with some of your friends unless you're just pathetically desperate to see naked women. They don't sell sex, they sell the idea that you're the kind of person who can simply wave a few bucks and women will dance around naked for you. It's a power thing as well as a tits and ass thing. Oddly enough, it's usually a power thing for the chicks dancing as well in that they're getting paid large wads of cash simply for the privilege of looking at them. Perspective's an interesting thing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 12 2018, @12:29AM (1 child)
A lot of those strippers are available for paid sex after their shift is over.
But yeah, generally speaking, strip bars are a huge tease and and I don't see the point.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday January 12 2018, @01:10AM
It beats Netflix for a night out with the guys and you don't have to clean up after.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by looorg on Thursday January 11 2018, @02:41PM
Clearly deviant. We wouldn't want to think that they are robosexuals. That said Bender would be so proud, he would build his own stripclub .. with Blackjack and hookers ... oh right its a stripclub in Vegas so they probably already have that.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday January 11 2018, @05:35PM
You must drive an electric car, because the whole piston-in-hot-cylinder thing is a lot more explicit than those gyrating bunches of plastic.