Showing posts with label anti-vivisection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anti-vivisection. Show all posts

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Science goes too far: living skin robots

Now available with real LIVING, self-healing, human facial skin that smiles (Made in Japan)
I have been waiting for this development. Now I can kiss and feel like a human doll.
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Japanese scientists make a robot face with living skin that can smile

AI sexbot dolls are already for sale.
(ABC News) Scientists in Japan have made a robot face covered in living, self-healing skin that can smile in a demonstration of a new technique researchers believe could help pave the way for lifelike biohybrid [line of sexbots and] humanoid robots in the future.
  • [The real concern is that any technology that gets publicly disclosed is usually about 50 years old before we are told about it. The military (DARPA, Pentagon, CIA, NSA, NSC, Apple, Meta, Google, Alphabet, Elon Musk's Tesla/X, Jeff Bezos' Amazon, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, etc.) will have already exploited it, as with many features built into iPhones such as audiovisual spying, directional motion detection, and detection of other nearby technology such as other phones. So it seems likely that there are already independently operating, artificially intelligent automatons and androids in the population along with body-doubles and killbots. Will these sexbot-robots now technically count as "skin-walkers"?]
Will women buy robotic phalluses on AI bots?
The scientists, led by Prof. Shoji Takeuchi at the Univ. of Tokyo’s Biohybrid Systems Lab, attached cultured skin to a 3D facial mold using perforation-type anchors, which mimic the natural structure of human skin ligaments.

“The ultimate aim of this project is to create robots with fully-functional, lifelike skin that can heal itself, sense its surroundings, and perform tasks that closely mimic human behavior,” Prof. Takeuchi told ABC News.

Want to go out on a date? - I have kung fu grip. - I'll take that as a yes. - I charge. - OK.
    Will men pay for robotic... Never mind. Of course they will. They already buy plastic dolls.

    A robot face with living skin anchored to it is seen in a Tokyo laboratory, where scientists have been able to make it smile, in a breakthrough in biohybrid robot technology (© 2024 Takeuchi et al)
    It's been a sci-fi fantasy for decades
    A video demonstration shows a circular piece of cultured living skin, anchored over a 3D facial mold being stretched from a blank facial expression to a smile.

    In addition, the team also covered a robotic finger in the skin and were able to make it bend and even flick small objects with fluid motion.

    The anchors developed by the team mean the robots external appearance is not compromised by having protruding skin anchors, which can also damage the skin during movement.

    Can scientists create realistic looking Johns, too? - It's already been done.
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    Life-like German Nazi Eve/Barbie
    The researchers say that one of the key advantages of a robot having living skin is its capacity to self-heal, rather than requiring repair every time it is scratched or damaged.

    The [publicly disclosed] technology is still in its infancy, however. This means that it will likely be a long time before Terminator-style living-skin-covered robots are an everyday occurrence [even if test versions have secretly been out and about for a long time during the development].

    In order for the skin to stay on a robot long-term, scientists would need to integrate other biological systems, such as nerves, muscles, and sensory organs into it [maybe a transplanted brain from a nonconsenting homeless donor].
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    • In a clip filmed by ALF (the Animal Liberation Front) seen in the antivivisectionist documentary Slaughter of the Innocent, animal activists broke into the corporate headquarters of the "City of Hope" in Duarte, California (a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley with the downtown skyline in view to the southwest). They were there to liberate animals being tortured by scientists, who were giving the animals, many of them dogs and puppies, cancerous tumors then testing allopathic chemicals on them as treatments in search of marketable synthetic medicines for profit. As if this were not shocking enough, the activists entered a walk-in freezer in one lab and pulled out large plastic bags.
    • Emptying them out on the ground, they found human body parts with no explanation. It was easy to conclude that human experiments were also being done in secret, experimenting on human being then "sacrificing" (a euphemism for executing an experimental subject at the end of an experiment) them and examining their cadavers.
    • The Campaign Against Sex Robots
    • Had these been the donated corpses of volunteers who left their bodies to science, as one would love to believe, their amputated body parts would not have hastily been tossed into trash bags and deposited in walk-in freezers without labels, tags, or accompanying documentation. It seems clear from the footage that "mad" scientists were just free to acquire, mutilate, and experiment on all mammals, humans being no exception, in their blind ambition for capitalist medicine and its advancement at all costs. The goal, after all, is not to cure cancer or other diseases, but only to treat them for profit for as many years as can be managed before patients die of other causes. like fictional Hannibal Lecter, did these scientists begin their experiments by attempting "face transplants" from living subject to artificial robots? And that failed so they cultured cells instead?]

    “Developing a method to incorporate blood vessels or an alternative nutrient supply system remains one of the key challenges we are working on to extend the skin's viability outside controlled environments,” Scientist Takeuchi said. More + VIDEO:

    Tuesday, August 11, 2020

    The Buddha and the Animals (video)

    Dharma Voices for Animals documentary, Ellie Askew, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


    The first precept, in the Buddhist teaching, is to refrain from taking the life of any living being.

    (Dharma Voices for Animals) Enjoyed the film? Join DVA (dharmavoicesforanimals.org). Membership is free, and every voice makes existing voices stronger.

    In keeping with a tradition of the Buddha's teachings, or the Dharma, called dana (sharing, letting go, donating, giving, supporting, liberality, the practice of generosity), this film is offered completely free of charge. To support this work, please consider a donation.

    This powerful and important documentary features interviews with world-renowned Buddhist monastics and lay teachers including American Bhikkhu Bodhi, Jetsuma (Venerable Master) Tenzin Palmo, Ven. Gunaratana ("Bhante G"), Christopher Titmuss, Ven. Geshe Phelgye, teachers from Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and many others.
    • Subtitles in Chinese, Spanish, Hindi, German, Sinhalese, Portuguese, Burmese, Vietnamese, Korean, Indonesian: click gearwheel (settings), then subtitles, then language.

    Friday, July 17, 2020

    Whole Foods vs. Wayne in Berkeley (video)

    NowThis, 12/25/19, Wayne Hsuing; Ellie Askew, CC Liu, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly


    Animals activists pressure Whole Foods over its alleged animal abuse
    Whole Foods has gone Amazon. Go, Wayne!
    (NowThis News) Whole Foods is allegedly suing 100+ animal rights activists for asking questions about where its products come from and how they're made. Co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere (and Berkeley mayoral candidate) Wayne Hsiung (\shung\) is being sued by Amazon Corporation branch company Whole Foods for asking questions, alleging, and protesting animal cruelty in the factory farm operations that sell meat to its stores. Human health and animal welfare are top concerns for Hsiung. This video includes footage of the activist arrested outside Whole Foods in Berkeley.

    Thursday, March 21, 2013

    CRASS: An Amazing Evening in L.A. (video)

    and coming soon... SYSTEM OF A DOWN
    Kelly Larson, Seven, Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson, Wisdom Quarterly; Anarcho-Punk.net
    Crass Tribute Band vocalists playing roles of Eve Libertine and Joy De Vivre (Larson/WQ)
    "We're weird, we're here, deal with it" the musicians of the L.A. Crass Tribute Band are saying as they perform "Smother Love" at the Echo, St. Patty's Day, March 17, 2013 (Larson/WQ)

    Time, 10:00 pm. Setting, "Part Time Punks Club" at The Echo, Silverlake, east of Hollywood. A benefit for Black Panther Elder Freeman who is suffering from cancer. 
     
    First came the speakers: Kevin Baker from "March Forward" at Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans Against the War (ivaw.org), Vida Jafari from "Progress for Science" (an anti-vivisection group), and Roland Freeman (a Black Panther from the late 1960s).
     
    Rocking out hardcore British style (Larson/WQ)
    A California Crass tribute band took the stage in wedding dresses.

    Those were the men [Marcus Savino (Silver Daggers), Allen Bleyle (Apple Brains), WSKM (Tearist), and Arlen Jones], who began to play every song on the classic British punk album, "Penis Envy."
     
    "Bata Motel" original by Crass, below by Crass Tribute Band, Los Angeles, March 17, 2013
     
       
    Then a series of female lead singers took turns at the mic in place of Eve Libertine and Joy De Vivre, who recorded the original album. They were: Jessica Espeleta, Mecca Vazie Andrews (MVMT mvmt), Nikki Godinez (Peter Pants), Inez Parra, Paloma Parfrey (Sharp Ease), Claire McKeown (Dirt Bird), Tuna (Dogteeth), Lila DeMagalhaes, Allison Wolfe (Bratmobile), Grace Hall (Cool Moms), Jula Bell (Bulimia Banquet), and Beth Capper (Oiler, Fleabag).

    System of a Down
     
    In their only US show before setting off for a European tour, SOAD will be taking over the elegant Hollywood Bowl (shown at left). If the venue survives, it will have survived the band's only American show in two years, which came after a hiatus of five years as members undertook solo projects. SOAD is one of the most uncompromising yet critically acclaimed and popular protest bands in the history of rock 'n roll. 
    (SOAD) "B.Y.O.B." about the US police state and "Hypnotize" about the Tiananmen Square Massacres of 1989, which killed 4,000 to 6,000 civilians and injured 30,000 more.

    Thursday, April 23, 2009

    Pro-Test versus Protesters (UCLA)



    A rally was held today to protest the mistreatment and vivisection (experimenting on live subjects) at UCLA. A counter-protest (by an animal-cruelty in the name of science ad hoc organization) to fight anti-vivisection "extremism" targeted students.

    A group calling itself "Pro-Test" (advocating animal testing even if it tortures animals or even if it produces results that can not be extrapolated to humans) went to the corner of Westwood Blvd. and Le Conte Ave. A rally in support of animals was taking place. Pro-Test was there to antagonize activists, perhaps even stir up enough emotion to give police a pretext to shut down all protesting.

    On the one hand, Pro-Test wants to affirm the role of biomedical research on animals. Anti-vivisectionists, on the other hand, argue the bad science done in the name of corporate profits, to justify more poisonous treatments (rather than cures) serves neither the animals nor the humans it's done in the name of. The slanted school paper (Daily Bruin) covered the event.