January 17, 2009

Stop Confusing Me, Damnit: The TOFU Robot

Filed Under: alien / animals / apocalypse / are you my mother? / awh / confused / cuddly / cute / destruction / eyes / eyes may be the windows to the soul -- but eyepatches are the window treatments / fun for all ages / furry / i feel funny / i want / media lab / mit / neat / pet / robot / sure why not / video / will you be my friend? / wtf is that!

TOFU is a meat-free robot that looks and acts like a penguin crossed with a Furby crossed with my ex-girlfriend's muff (which I DID see once when I walked in on her in the shower -- score!) Developed at the MIT Media Lab, the little bastard dances to music and has OLED eyes that look eerily sexy. "He's a "squash and stretch" robot, one that uses techniques of social expression employed by 2D animators to give himself some personality." I have no idea what that means but I've killed my fair share of Furbys and, by God, I'll kill a battalion of these little robotic bitches too. But....those eyes....

UPDATE: Humankind, please forgive me, for I have sinned in the most I had-sex-with-a-robot way possible. And, I still have some more reading to do on the subject, but I think I might be pregnant.

TOFU is the most cuddly robot ever [dvice]