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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by MisterMunchkin on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:10PM (#50359507)
That’s a flawed assumption. Everyone wants a live-in bangmaid. They’re just normally too expensive. If you could buy one for 30k, they would fly off the shelves.
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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by makeitdouble on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @10:27PM (#50361194)
Everyone wants a perfect robot at a low cost.

Except it won't happen, so the amount or people wanted a pretty flawed and compromised yet expensive robot will be pretty low.

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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by olelele on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @01:51AM (#50362213)
Sexist much?
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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by derektank on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @02:57AM (#50362580)
Against which sex?
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Re:Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot by swiftcoder on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:16AM (#50363992)
While Hollywood may portray the whole fuckable-robot thing as a male-dominate field, reality suggests the reverse. It's mostly not males that the current generation of powertool-like sextoys are marketed to...
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