According to the Daily Mail, in 2017, a 31-year-old engineer in Hangzhou, mainland China, married a "wife robot" named Yingying, an AI robot designed and produced by the male engineer company.
The reason why he chose to marry a robot as a wife, according to the groom, he lost love once a few years ago, and was rejected by his crush during his studies, and the family was more anxious, so he decided to marry Yingying, a robot designed by his company.
Many people will think that "Yingying" is just a erotic robot, but in fact, she is an AI robot, which can identify images and graphics, such as: after uploading her own relatives to the cloud server, Yingying can know who this person is, and how to call this relative the next time she encounters it.
Yingying can also communicate by voice or text, and when she wants to chat, she can connect a computer to Yingying.
In addition, Jiajia also has an adult mode, music video playback, object recognition, search news, bus information and help book tickets. Yingying's version can also be updated and iterated, and more functions can be upgraded through technical means, such as: walking, moving, and even doing housework.
In fact, the "wife robot" is not only the engineer in Hangzhou, but also many intelligent robot enthusiasts, designing the wife robot for various purposes.
As early as 2008, there was an engineer in Canada, because of his busy work, there was no time to find true love, so according to his own mate selection criteria, he made a perfect woman who met his imagination: the robot "Aiko".
According to the program setting, Aiko not only wrote down all the hobbies of the host, but also handled accounting affairs, simple housework, newspaper reading, communication and other functions.
The engineer said Aiko's face and body react to touch, can feel pain, and she will even fight back. Moreover, as long as the software is redesigned, it can make Aiko act as a sexual partner, but he is not ready to develop an intimate relationship with Aiko.
Will the "wife robot" really be realized?
For a variety of reasons, some men are unable to develop intimate relationships with women in real life either because of setbacks in early love or because of personality problems. The emergence of the "wife robot" seems to be a perfect solution to this problem.
(The movie "My Girlfriend is a Robot")
But in fact, whether in foreign countries or at home, "wife robots" are the products of individual robot enthusiasts and have not been popularized to the public, so what is the reason for this?
Many countries are studying intelligent robots, but there are no mainstream scientists studying "wife robots". Often mistaken by the media as a wife robot, ERICA is actually a research-oriented intelligent robot, she is an intelligent robot developed by Professor Ishiguro, the father of Japanese robots, and the team, but because it is too beautiful and too realistic, it has been mistakenly reported by some media as a "wife robot", and also said that it will do anything except give birth to children.
This robot is not yet mass-produced, it is still in the research and development stage, but because the designer is Professor Ishiguro, who is well-known in the global robot industry, her popularity is very wide, not only with Ishiguro Hiroshi in fashion magazines, but also as a guest of the show, the host, and even played herself in the movie.
Unfortunately, ERICA is not a wife robot, as rumored to be, she is not capable of moving at all, unable to cook, clean, but need people's help in every move.
And her price is not the 100,000 yuan rumored on the Internet, Ishiguro said: even the cheapest custom intelligent robot, the price is 630,000 yuan, only a few laboratories can afford to buy.
In addition to ERICA, many countries are also studying beautiful robots, such as the mainland's "Jiajia", foreign "Sophia", etc., but these robots are research robots, the direction of research is not to replace human women as "wives", but to explore the distance between intelligent robots and humans.
Even engineers who marry robots as wives have to admit that robots and wives are still very different, in addition to not being able to have children, they cannot do housework, cannot move, and cannot accurately provide emotional and social value like wives.
summary
Although many people want a girlfriend who is obedient, it has to be said that people sometimes do not always get along with each other so pleasantly, and robot wives seem to solve many problems, but she brings more problems, such as: unable to integrate into their social circle, unable to accompany themselves out.
So instead of hoping to find the perfect girlfriend in the virtual world, try to fall in love with a specific person in the real world.