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O N E DAY, ROBOTS WILL BUILD AN ADVANCED SOCIETY AND WAGE WAR ON HUMANS.
FOR NOW, THEY MIX HAIR COLOR, VACUUM, AND SPEAK IN A FEW SIMPLE PHRASES.
23: Waist size, in
inches, of Aiko,
a humanoid fembot
built by Trung
Le and a fulfillment
of the doctor’s
lifelong dream
of “making a robot
woman.”
44: Finalists in
2016’s Beauty.AI
contest, an
online pageant of
user-submitted
photos judged by
robots. The group
was mostly white,
suggesting that
the people behind
the technology
often contribute
biases of their own.
17,000: Instagram
posts digested
by BeautyGAN, an
algorithm that uses
machine learning to
determine “popular
and relevant”
makeup looks.
(Among the results:
bubblegum-pink
lips and Technicolor
shadows.)
2.2:
Octooctogintillion
(that’s 267
zeroes) pigment
combinations
possible when using
eSalon’s Polly
Chrome color
machine, which
creates a (very)
custom hair-color
regimen and ships
it directly to you.
$12,000: Cost of a
RealDoll, a humanoid
silicone sex robot
from robotics
firm RealBotix.