Couple's 'Robotic Child' Sings Karaoke, Laughs, And Tells jokes

Mail Online:

Tony Ellis and his wife, Judie, do not have any children or animals at home - but with chatterbox robot Aimec following them around, there is never a dull moment.

The couple effectively have a robotic child, just like in the 2001 futuristic fairy tale Artificial Intelligence starring Haley Joel Osment.

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Comments

[TomR]

02:01 PM on 08/17/2010

Nice, if not misleading, file photo. Who doesn't love the appeal of a robot with glowing eyes staring at you from the corner of the room?

- Tom

[Chaling]

10:15 AM on 08/16/2010

and all without the diaper changes even..

[sassafra]

01:59 AM on 08/16/2010

yeah, yeah, yeah, wake me up and tell me when they get wonder robot to clean out the fridge, and regularly suck my checking account dry just keeping it's many whims satisfied.

[JasonMcl]

12:46 PM on 08/15/2010

This article forgets to mention the part where the child's real brother awakens from a coma and gets in a fight with the robotic child who then hurts the petulant, whiny organic child which causes the robotic child to be kicked out onto the streets where it meets and befriends a gigalo bot who then accompanies it on a quest to become real and then the world ends.

And then Stanley Kubrick dies and Steven Spielberg ruins the ending with aliens.

[sassafra]

02:07 AM on 08/16/2010

*laughs*
i swear, if this somehow turns into a jar jar binks spinoff i'll just spit. faved.

[bubbuh]

03:30 PM on 08/14/2010

Robotic "Child" Secretly Organic Parents With More Manageable Robotic Versions

[bubbuh]

03:31 PM on 08/14/2010

Correction

Robotic "Child" Secretly Replaces Organic Parents With More Manageable Robotic Versions

[ilovecandy]

11:08 AM on 08/14/2010

Pointless, they could have adopted a real child or helped children, but they build a robot. They don't want kids, they want a tool.

[piper1233]

10:20 AM on 08/14/2010

"Adoption"!

[IfIonlyknew]

09:39 AM on 08/14/2010

I hope mt parent are very happy with my components they have been made just for me I do not have to go to the bathroom but i still can see Ha Ha Ha Ha did you get the joke i just made See and pee
they rime Ha Ha Ha I can tell you another joke if you would like or I can get you a nice drink from my list of bar school bevrages in my last life I was a nasa computer is there any thing you would like to know have you heard the one about a nun and her three sisters Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha that was a good jokewhy are you not laughing did I not say a joke I am going to patrol the perimeter and make sure we are safe stay in side till I return stay inside till I return stay inside till I return

[StAlphonso]

07:53 AM on 08/14/2010

Big deal...the Duggers have 19 of 'em...and counting!

[BassguyGG]

03:43 PM on 08/13/2010

Yeesh. How sad. Somebody watched "A.I. - Artificial Intelligence" too many times.

[willtij]

03:17 PM on 08/13/2010

Ok, here is an idea: How about taking that same money and instead of spending it on a rich man's toy, spend it on helping real children in need, maybe making a difference that way?

[LittleMittens]

11:54 PM on 08/13/2010

I'm with you on that judgement call

[ilovecandy]

11:07 AM on 08/14/2010

Exactly.

[angrymanspokane]

12:26 PM on 08/13/2010

I Robot - that's all I'm saying...

[FBuchan]

12:22 PM on 08/13/2010

Given what this robot does, regardless of what it looks like, it is at best a mechanical pet. Children, even robotic ones, would have to be a tad more complex.

[JasonMcl]

12:48 PM on 08/15/2010

Whenever I babysit my niece, I spend about 2-3 hours throwing a ball across the room and letting her chase it.

[FBuchan]

12:23 PM on 08/16/2010

There is some eerie truth to this.