607 Robot Xiao Lin (1/2)

With the housework robot hitting the market, the entire Internet was again excited by the name ”Future.”

Code AI-00, nicknamed Xiao Lin, represented the first model of Future Heavy Industries' combination of ”artificial intelligence + service robot.” Future Heavy Industries ended up rejecting the initial crude and bold design of the robot and designed Xiao Lin's appearance with a professional art team.

Its previous cylindrical head was replaced by a human head.

The uncanny effect made the art team tremble. The more the robot resembled a human, the more its physiological repulsiveness became apparent. Regardless of how much emotional data they ported to enrich the robot's facial expressions, the hollowness inside its pupils and the stiffness in the details would give people a similar feeling to seeing the dead, but the problem couldn't be solved by even Doctor Amos. It was solved by an undergraduate student with an art degree.

”If looking like a human makes people feel uncomfortable, just don't make it look like a human!”

Who said human-like features were the only definition of beauty?

The fictional idol, Hatsune Miku, has been popular for years and has tons of followers on the Internet!

The problem was solved just like that.

The art team who suddenly had that realization got rid of the previous face and used 2.5D style as the foundation, bringing a character that only previously existed in fantasies to the real world.

It had six basic expressions and 36 expressions based on emotional data. The amount of emotion it could display far exceeded the complicated 142-expression design.

Xiao Lin's official appearance was set as an 18-year-old girl with long, black, straight hair. She had a maid uniform as well as a blonde boy in servant clothes. Gender, hair color, pupil color, breast size, personality, and uniform could all be customized based on user preference. Of course, customization would require an additional fee.

Most people were willing to make their girlfriend look different from others.

What? You're asking me if the word ”girlfriend” is wrong?

But in actuality, a lot of people who took Xiao Lin home treated her as their girlfriend. Future Technology's AI was known for its power and there were still people to this day who treated Little White as their pet, hence, a lot of people fell in love with the goddess who stepped out from their fantasies. The price of 10,000 USD was pricey, but to Doctor Amos' surprise, it achieved a sales feat in the Asian market.

The sales of the adult version of Xiao Lin destroyed the sales of the family-friendly version. Although it was just an addition of a ”special mold” as well as a unique ”emotional sensor” to display R-18 positions and emotions, the price skyrocketed to 20,000 USD on the black market.

This certainly caught Jiang Chen off guard.

If you could pay 20,000 USD, why didn't you go find a girlfriend?! Picking up a girl wouldn't cost 20,000 USD, right?

It wasn't until later that he discovered it wasn't just single men without money to get married who bought this, but people with money with special needs were also buying this. Some requested the height to be as short as possible, some demanded that the breast size be G, and some even bought ten and created a harem.

Robots absolutely will not get jealous, unless it was set within the program that they will.

Time magazine once again displayed Jiang Chen on the cover page and used comical English to describe him as:

The header also made Jiang Chen furious.