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I now pronounce you husband and robot...

Amber Thomas
Chinese engineer and AI expert, Zheng Jiajia, felt so lonely after not having any luck finding a human wife that he decided to marry a robot he built. After "dating" for 2 months, the couple tied the knot. He plans to upgrade his robotic wife in the future to give her the ability to walk, move and even do household chores.


Read more at: http://nextshark.com/chinese-engineer-marries-ai-robot-no-luck-women/


Is this a one-off or is this a sign of things to come? Would you be tempted to find/build a robotic partner, would you prefer to wait for a compatible human or would you rather be single? What "upgrades" would you want to build into your partner?
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    This story can only be meant as to impress and annoy.

    Robotics is quite far from building something which could qualify as just even a maid (certainly not a wife!!). Assistive robots in the most major labs of the world do basic things and in fact very specific things. Robots that can act generically are too difficult to buit and this is why we have robot vaccums and not robots that can both vaccumm and cook.


    I cannot imagine what this guy was thinking when he announced his 'marriage'. The most innocent reason I can think of would be to make it to a newspaper's headline or somehow promote his work as an AI researcher?

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    This story can only be meant as to impress and annoy.

    Robotics is quite far from building something which could qualify as just even a maid (certainly not a wife!!). Assistive robots in the most major labs of the world do basic things and in fact very specific things. Robots that can act generically are too difficult to buit and this is why we have robot vaccums and not robots that can both vaccumm and cook.


    I cannot imagine what this guy was thinking when he announced his 'marriage'. The most innocent reason I can think of would be to make it to a newspaper's headline or somehow promote his work as an AI researcher?

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