No kidding. If I were Scarlett Johansson, I’d feel icky.
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I can fell your thrysistors, would you like to recharge with me.
The grim robot future will transcend figuratively objectifying women to literally objectifying women.
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Imagine how you’d feel if someone was marketing a perfect, fuckable duplicate of you? Ugh.
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Lucy, i’d hope.
But no, it probably is Ghost in the Shell (2017) merchandise.
Expect more ScarBot newsitems.
For some reason, he spent a lot of time working on that hand grip motion. I can’t imagine why.
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… you say that like it’s a bad thing 
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What, exactly, would you hope she wins? I agree that ‘builds gynoid for reasons virtually certain to involve fetishization’ is tactical nuclear creepy; but what does it do that you would see as tortious and/or illegal?
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I was thinking Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Didn’t they devote a whole season to this?
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Laws vary by state and country, but “ownership of the commercial use of one’s image” is a legally recognized right in many places. That’s why you should always consult a lawyer before selling bootleg bobble-heads of your favorite movie star.
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Of me. Hopelessly confused about it.
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If this were a 2016 model-year Realdoll offering, publicity rights would definitely come into play; but is there anything especially ‘commercial’ about what this guy is doing?
If he starts taking commissions for more of them, attempts to parlay the spectacle into a show business career; or decides to add a few orders of magnitude to the creepy by pimping out the bot, he’d definitely be going commercial; but the ‘publicity rights’ in most jurisdictions seem to have similar aims to copyrights: ensuring that the creator of the celebrity persona gets to exploit its commercial value; not as a substitute, supplement, or addendum to protections against libel/slander, of privacy, and similar.
So long as his use is not commercial in any important sense, he’d seen to be in the clear on that score. Anywhere with anti-squicking legislation, he is out of luck; but that is far less common.
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If so I’d totally… erm, no, I wouldn’t.
Creep factor and sexbot jokes aside this man is talented and dedicated. I’m digging his youtube chan
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I dunno, “selling a Scarlett Johansson robot for tens of thousands of dollars” sounds like something that you could probably get at least some courts to rule as “commercial use” of her image. I guess we won’t know unless she decides to pursue damages.
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She’ll leave him.
Just like all the others.
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That amount of time, talent, money and effort could have netting something really cool in a quad copter or a tank-bot or autonomous sub. For a sexy Chat-bot, CGI should have been plenty sufficient.
I wonder if it being a one of a kind “work of art” would give him some kind of out?
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Uh, yeah. I think Ms. Johansson might agree with you.
In between her legs, there’s an opening with a concentration of sensors.
You engage them in the right way, it creates a pleasure response. So, if you wanted to screw her, mechanically speaking, you could. And she’d enjoy it.
