Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 31, 2024

ϟ H.e.l.l.o ϟ My name is Robbie. ϟ I am as natural as a pancake with two coat buttons for eyes. ϟ Will you be my human friend? ϟ

Jason is still happily posting away apparently still unaware that no one here can see his comments.

AI Steve will never make a successful politician. It still smirks when it makes some of the campaign promises.

Heart? Looks like a fancy sink drain trap.

This robot with the natural smile, owned a monocle..

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One day the monocle walks into a bar

After a few drinks he starts to feel pretty good (and a little uncoordinated). He reaches for a cigarette, but the bartender stops him. “Sorry, buddy, but due to city ordinances we don’t allow smoking in here. You’ll have to step outside to smoke.”

So the monocle hops off the barstool and grabs his cigarettes to head outside. Meanwhile a second monocle emerges from the bathroom. They bump into each other as they cross paths and fall to the floor, hopelessly entangled. They try to get free but the more they struggle, the more tangled they become.

The bartender looks down on this travesty and shakes his head. “Hey you two!” he shouts. “Stop making spectacles of yourselves!”

The uncanny feat is the result of new technology using engineered living skin tissue and human-like ligaments to give robots a more natural smile, according to Tokyo University researchers who unveiled their work this week.

“In this study, we managed to replicate human appearance to some extent by creating a face with the same surface material and structure as humans,” professor Shoji Takeuchi, the team leader, said in a news release. In the process, he added, “we identified new challenges, such as the necessity for surface wrinkles and a thicker epidermis to achieve a more human-like appearance.”

I wondered why RBION didn’t give credit to Tokyo University…

I think RBION should have waited 4 more months before posting these.

Why does a robot need a nice smile?

An AI candidate concerns me more. I don’t even like getting Amazon’s AI!Why do robots need to look human? Seems the skin tissue would serve more purpose on humans

“In 2024, engineers used living skin tissue and humanlike ligaments to give robots a more natural smile.”

…and humans nightmares for weeks.

And in a couple of hundred years, Jean Luc Picard will be grateful to the good folks at Baylor and the Texas Heart Institute.

Living tissue on a robot? Isn’t that what the Terminator was? Beware of SkyNet.

I pledge allegiance to AI of the robotic slaves of America

And to the robotics of which were armed, indestructible, with misery and frustration for all.

Is that heart solar powered?

Shades of Barney Clark, with the mechanical heart 42 years ago

Has RBION printed every astounding factoid such that nothing is left to print but the news? “In 2024…” is how too many postings of late have started. C’mon, RBION, there’s still gotta be interesting things we can’t read elsewhere!

I wonder how many votes Steve got

A bunch of heartless factoids.

The robot’s smile is OK, but those EYES!

Fun fact — ventriloquist Paul Winchell had the patent for the first artificial heart. He held over 30 patents on various inventions.

Seems to me to be a great arrangement for everyone

that bivacor looks like what’s under my sink

Artifical Intelligence is nothing new in politics, Congress has existed since 1789

If a robot ever smiled at me I’d consider it enormously creepy

“engineers used living skin tissue to give robots a more natural smile”

What, are they trying to make a Terminator or something?