Not even in futuristic movies will you see such a thing that may blow many a mind. Given the fact you’ve seen weird two-headed strippers, you’ve seen alien strippers and maybe even cyborg strippers but have you seen robot strippers? Well, that is now very real.
The world is becoming weirder, gone are the days when humans were satisfied with humans. Becoming kinky doesn’t relate to an act involving humans anymore where men look for pleasure beyond the unattainable, perhaps that is the new definition of kinkiness to experience pleasure on what isn’t real or what wasn’t possible. Even in earlier alien movies like star trek, dancing girls or slave girls (well that was what they were referred to at the time with no offence to women) was still very much human-like and they were beautiful at that. Remember the Orion slave girls Maras, D’Nesh and Navaar.
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Now we are in a very different world where man is using technology for inventing robotic objects of pleasure. Who knows with the rise of artificial intelligence like the very creepy Sophia the robot, soon such things could take the place of human women catering to the dominating attitude of men influenced by their animalistic cavemen-ish dominating instinct that lies dormant but rears its head quite often and though criticism of such a point may be rampant, one shouldn’t be too hypocritical of this obvious fact.
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Getting back to the main topic, robot strippers could now be the latest craze. Yes!! You hear right and not just stripping, they are pole dancing robots too and it seems to have become quite a rage at a particular club who has implemented them on their dance stage.
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Years of complicated technology, invention and discovery and man ultimately uses his brains to create a robotic stripper but what the hell! If people love the new fad, then so be it. If robots have been invented to do household tasks, drive cars then why not strip, the only problem is that it takes one heck of a mind to conjure up an ounce of sexiness in watching metal shake booty and jerk around a dancing pole.
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As of now there is no fear of robots stealing jobs of exotic dancers because right now there are just two of them and they are more of a novelty than anything else. The two robot pole dancers can be seen at the Sapphire Gentleman’s Club in Vegas which incidentally is the largest nightclub in the world and on whose stage the likes of Rihanna, 50 cents, Floyd Mayweather and Avril Lavigne have entertained crowds.
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The man who took over the stage was British Artist Giles Walker who brought the robot pole dancers to Vegas to gyrate seductively alongside their human counterparts. Although not really designed to replace real strippers (which they can’t for any normal man), they were created for a much wider and surprising purpose. The robot pole dancers were showcased at the same time as the popular CES (consumer electronics show) and walker wanted to showcase them to prove how machines are being used for the wrong purposes like voyeurism and surveillance.
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Walker said he brought them to showcase a public concern: “My worry is — and this is really crude, but it is a crude idea — if you build a robot that you can get physical with, then you can build a robot that you can rape, and you can build a child robot that you can also be intimate with, and it’s all supposedly legal. But [just] because it’s legal, does that mean it’s a healthy thing? The dark side of the adult industry will create some really nasty, nasty stuff, and I think, ‘Is it worth it?’
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From afar, the robots look like real dancers in drag but when you come up close you can see they are clear mannequins with surveillance cameras fitted as head. Now who thinks that’s sexy? Although of course they had well shaped crafted feminine chests, buttocks and were grinding and thrusting like real dancers.
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This turned out to be one of the classic stunts you see at Vegas where the robots were capable of fixed movements and seemed tied to the pole. The human dancers at the club were not worried in the least as one performer said “There are a lot of people with weird fetishes, so I am sure somebody will get turned on by them, nobody can beat the beauty of someone, and our talent with our brains, the way we talk. We can make people feel better than them.”
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The club’s managing partner Peter Feinstein said he was using the robots as bait for many men who will most likely want to see the novelty and perhaps it may also attract women
“We’re appealing to a mass audience who looks on the internet, which we don’t normally do just as a gentlemen’s club,” he told The Daily Beast. “If you’re six people from a company and there are two women and four guys, you can still [come] here and have some fun and see the robots and not feel like you have to be part of a strip club.”
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To make the performance even more entertaining, tip buckets were placed on stage with funny notes saying “need money for batteries”, MIT bound. Perhaps they could have also said “won’t wind no grind”. This encouraged men to donate cash to the android grinding girls and their weird camera like faces. Coming to think of it, this would be a great futuristic way for surveillance of criminals as it won’t include any risk of physical harm to a human. Someone may get the idea, who knows.
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However, not all guests were pleased with the weird humanoid dancers. Some who preferred the real thing commented: “I just think the robots have awkward movement, no one really moves like that.” But!!With advancing technology, they could be programmed with pole dancing lessons too, wouldn’t that be possible? One patron said “I was hoping for a bit more up and down action than just the hip and grind.”
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The robot strippers were seen only for a week at the club but were not regarded as a feature of the CES who took pains in issuing a statement saying that it was not in any way affiliated to the performance of pole dancing robots at the nightclub. Organizers said they do not tolerate inappropriate behavior on convention grounds or at official show events. These were unsanctioned events and not reflective of CES or the general Tech Industry at large. Watch the video below.