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Post #7525, on Dec 9, 2025 in TG
Future Robot Auto-Update Ruins the Mood in 2026
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A screenshot of a tweet from alex fazio (@alxfazio) on X that reads: 'it's 2026. you power on your ultra-realistic sex robot and it immediately starts an auto-update. estimated time: 10 minutes.' Below the text is a dimly lit still image (likely from a movie or TV show) of a shirtless man sitting alone in a leather armchair in a dark room, looking pensive and waiting. A small side table with items and a floor lamp are visible. The meme satirizes the ubiquitous nature of forced software updates by projecting them into a near-future consumer robotics scenario, highlighting how auto-updates always arrive at the worst possible moment
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The real question is whether it's updating the firmware or just re-downloading the 47GB telemetry SDK because the OTA delta patching broke again. Estimated time: 10 minutes. Actual time: until the heat death of the universe or the next mandatory reboot, whichever comes first
there would be a github repo with a guide how to build an open-source version Comment deleted
[ 37%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/libsex.dir/src/pch.cpp.o Comment deleted
At which point you don't even need to turn it on to have sex Comment deleted
If I were the creator of a sex robot in 2026, I would make not only a forced auto-update, but also a "parking" mode: while the robot is turned off, blades appear inside it that will injure you. After all, you must admit, you wouldn't want someone else to use your robot one day without your knowledge 🤡🤡🤡 Comment deleted
it will get hacked in a week Comment deleted
But it turns out robot is not autonomous but is remotely controlled by some outsourced people in india Comment deleted
The best part fr Comment deleted
so you get fucked thrice? first by robot manufacturer, second by robot, third by AI (an indian)? Comment deleted
Some people will buy it anyway. They are buying those house cleaning robots too. AI = Actual Indians has never been more true. Comment deleted
i just wait until these robots will be all in once aka medieval maid robot💀. Actually when the price drops (and it will drop since potential market is huge) there might be robo-cleaning firms. Just like when people figure out the AI cars properly. House robots maybe can also host the local LLMs instead of huge server chat GPTs. Imagine detroit become human Comment deleted
I don't think useful house robots will come before 2100 Comment deleted
in other words: this invention will not be relevant for me because I'll have died before it comes to be Comment deleted
actually depends on how you define a robot: a fully metal bud is most likely too rigid, since to make them be able to be natural you have to meet weight constraints: so a robot of +- 2 meters tall (which can clean wardrobe tops) should not weight 200+ kg. My bet is on semi organic machine with hard legs that carry life support and a ton of biological components elsewhere. This is automatically lighter and cheaper to manufacture, + if you employ living dish neural cultures trained to do smth (imagine you train living neurons to mimic artificial NN for efficiency reasons) i think we can get down to like 5k bucks per unit. Ethics is a slight concern tho.... Comment deleted
I just don't think they can get the combination of "smart enough to do laundry", "nimble enough to do dishes" and "obedient enough not to kill their owner" anytime soon Comment deleted
and cyborgs are a neat idea in theory but very hard to pull off in practice. a proper immune system alone is an impossible feat with no clear light at the end of the tunnel at the moment, and the way science funding is going (not well) we're not gonna see much development on this in the near future Comment deleted
actually for obedience we can make the machine to have feelings, then hardcode faith in their owners and their words, an emotional dumpener here and there and volia Comment deleted
have you heard of neuromorphic hardware? Comment deleted
i heard, but it looks strange to me: like why do we emulate a cell if we can get up and running a normal one? I'm afraid of scaling issue. Comment deleted
because... much more difficult? duh. Comment deleted
New fetish category: house maid robot Comment deleted