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Sexed Robots
Sexed Robots is the title of a project by artist Paul Granjon. The robots are autonomous wheeled vehicles fitted with nylon male or female nylon genitalia. According to the project description:
They are programmed to explore their environment, occasionally entering a "in heat" mode, where they will try and locate a partner in the same state. If a partner is located, the robots will attempt to mate.
What's the point, you may ask? Well, other than art not needing a point--or at least a practical purpose--Granjon is interested in exploring the co-evolution of humans and machines.
If Granjon wants humans to interact with machines in this way, they are going to need to look a lot less like his robots, and a lot more like Summer Glau in the TV series: "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles":
Here is a link to the Make post on the project which I will include simply because of the title: "Bots wander around aimlessly and then mate." Don't we have enough things on the planet already wandering aimlessly and mating?
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