In my previous post I said that this was the future, but to be honest this (kudos, Ant) might be a better way to go. A human looking android has always been the benchmark of robotics so it was only a matter of time until someone merged a Real Doll with an Aibo. The real aim though is to pass some sort of robotic Turing test: Professor Ishiguro believes that it may prove possible to build an android that could pass for a human, if only for a brief period. -- "An android could get away with it for a short time, 5-10 seconds. However, if we carefully select the situation, we could extend that, to perhaps 10 minutes," he said. In other news: I try, I really do and while I get good ranking for stuff like Flash and other serious things I post about a lot of my search engine traffic makes me look rather unsavoury. I mean, I'm third on MSN Search for the word "penises" (here's a screenshot if it changes). Really, not like this is a 100% clean blog but it's not exactly Stile Project either.