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[–] xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 341 points 1 month ago (16 children)

Don't hide it Japan, you're just doing this to make cat girls

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 124 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why stop there? I want my dog and fox and wolf girls too

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago

Nothing comes between a horse girl and her daddy’s money.

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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Won't someone think of the poor working class furries? A fur suit can already cost 10 or 20 grand. Now they're going to have to add cyborg body parts to the mix as well? Talk about gentrification!

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gerontofication, in this case.

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[–] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 85 points 1 month ago

Also these ears will help to uh, absorb the echoes and extra noise of the world around you. Yeah.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 16 points 1 month ago

Looks more like Mecha-Godzilla, tho.

[–] naught101@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So, uh, you reckon you could fit eight of those on one person?

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 146 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How about bionic ear appendages to combat hearing loss?

[–] Kevlar21@piefed.social 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 131 points 1 month ago

No, cat ears.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is that like a sexually transmitted ear infection?

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, it's aurally transmitted.

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[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 78 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I posted this comment on another thread:

My elation can't be measured.

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Imagine working in a retirement home and one day one of the residents tells you "I am taking part in this clinical trial" and then she comes back as Doctor fucking Octopus.

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[–] cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Is that photo AI? All the videos of the real prototype look substantially different.

https://youtu.be/vLwpMu_msW0

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago (2 children)

At best it's concept art, tho that thin strap probably wouldn't serve the purpose they're looking for. At worst it's generated by clickbait article writers.

How could they pass up an "electrified facehugger penis sheath" image like this?

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/japan-robotic-tail-intl-hnk-trnd/index.html

fr tho it's pretty cool research

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 1 month ago

You're right, it seems. That video is old (6 years), but I couldn't find any photos or videos that look substantially different from it.

"Arque tail" is the keywords to search for, if anyone wants to do their own research.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 55 points 1 month ago

Furry costumes just got more lifelike.

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Now if it can stab people and drain them of their bioenergy, I can reach my final form!

Cell, from *Dragonball Z, in his first hatched form

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm supposed to be cleaning but now I'm laughing too hard imagining some "saturday morning cartoon" tokusatsu show about a squad of mecha-grandmas.

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[–] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have a feeling a completely different audience has a definite interest. They would just cover it in the same fur as the rest of their costume.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago (20 children)

I was hoping for research into genetically adding one to a human, but I'll.take this.

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The next thing I need is an articulated mouth and the ability to spit fire. And spikes on my back!

For balance as well, obviously.

[–] Zyratoxx@fedia.io 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Can I... uhhm... get one too? Maybe a little more fluffy? Ohh, and it would be nice if it could wag too... U know... Just for... uhhm... balancing purposes...

(β€˜~β€˜; )

πŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆ

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[–] zakobjoa@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, that'll help elderly people with mobility issues β€” hucking another 5 kg of metal, motors and batteries around.

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The way it’s depicted, the weight will be felt around the center point of the body. That’s where it exerts the least force. Also I contest the notion that a difference of 5kg is that significant, even in elderly people.

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[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yup. That's the most cost-effctive solution to the elderly falling problem. Trust me there is no other reason we are doing this.

[–] kofe@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

My dreams of kick boxing like a kangaroo may finally come truee

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[–] axEl7fB5@lemmy.cafe 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cat girls or helping the elderly walk steadily?

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's Japan, it was definitely Cat Girls first, literally any justification to spend money developing this second.

If it were me it'd be a dragon tail, but to each their own.

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[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Will it stop my girlfriend from poking at my butthole when I'm above her on the stairs?

[–] Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago

Nothing will

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can think of another demographic that would like this...

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's Japan, we all know what they really invented it for. But they needed something acceptable to put on the grant application

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (15 children)

In all seriousness, human elderlies are actually evolutionary anomaly, because if Darwinian tenet of "survival of the fittest" applies 100% of the time, they would not be the norm. But the fact that old people are prevalent in human society is the proof that we are compassionate and loving creatures that transcend cold evolutionary programming. We care for others and the vulnerable.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Almost all of it comes down to how long it takes to raise children. It takes a lot more people and effort and time to raise humans vs any other species, and its made us unique in that we have essentially support roles. Elderly people, people who can't or dont want to have kids of their own, even older children, all have a role to play in making sure we make it to adulthood and continue the species.

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[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

Sure, in the context of physical abilities.

However, i think bands of hominids who care for each other have a survival advantage. I guess thats who we've evolved to be social creatures.

Also,, nanna might not be able to hunt mammoths anymore, but she knows what to do in years when the mammoth dont come.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Finally something to balance the enormous mass I have in front.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

This is just the first step towards making Dr Octopuss a reality. AND WE DON'T HAVE SPIDERMAN TO SAVE US!!!!

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[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Looking at other papers from the same lab and this is the silliest paper I've ever seen, they're evaluating the effect of shining rgb lights at glass noodles on the eating experience

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.06069

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

honestly the best posture advice I have ever gotten is to sit like I have a tail (you would have to tilt your hips forward and stick your butt out behind you to put the tail up behind you rather than curling your tailbone under such that you'd be sitting on the tail).

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 17 points 1 month ago

About time they did something for the furries.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

YES. THIS IS THE GOAL.

I would put it on the front

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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