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Posted: 11/4/2018 2:11:00 AM EDT

All of the droids in Star Wars border on junk built from old RCA tube televisions. They certainly had humanoid grafting techniques as evidenced when replacing Luke's hand. Our own tech doesn't allow us to complete the Kessel run in under 12 parsecs, but we are damn close to having some pretty lifelike sexy-time humanoid robots. Why was the Star Wars universe seemingly void of utilizing humanoid droids (not just for sex but in general)?

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Posted: 11/4/2018 2:16:56 AM EDT

[#1]

Some things are unethical. Theoretically we could have slaves.

Posted: 11/4/2018 2:19:33 AM EDT

[#2]

Maybe there are, but they don't go around ranting about their robosexuality all the time so we don't know about them.

Posted: 11/4/2018 2:19:34 AM EDT

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My guess is the rampant robot-phobia made sexy time with robots a no go generally, the thing with L3 being an exception. One of the few groups excluded and segregated.

Posted: 11/4/2018 2:38:26 AM EDT

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I didnt really intend for a sex robot specific discussion (just pointing out the lifelike works of our own reality) but rather why humanoid droids aren't present at all in any capacity in the SW world.

Posted: 11/4/2018 2:42:03 AM EDT

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they did, but why pay for delicate coverings for a work droid or a combat model?

ETA: The massive scope of SW means that life is cheap, what with millions of inhabited worlds, and droids are more valuable for doing things living beings cannot do. Human-like flesh covering is a useless expense in those cases.

Posted: 11/4/2018 3:25:09 AM EDT

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Droid prejudice. It's portrayed in the movies; most people treat droids like appliances, with few exceptions droids are barely tolerated as a necessity.

Also the Star Wars movies are pretty sterile as far as sex goes, even in the EU and especially in the prequels. ETA: But there is one "fully functional" droid I can think of, in Shadows of the Empire. She was a servant of Prince Xisor and looked completely human. And yeah, she did it all.

Posted: 11/4/2018 3:25:30 AM EDT

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Because that's how you get Cylons. Do you really want Cylons?

Posted: 11/4/2018 3:42:45 AM EDT

[#8]

If they did, Captain Kirk would have spent the entire time fucking them.

Posted: 11/4/2018 3:45:07 AM EDT

[#9]

Who cares.

Posted: 11/4/2018 4:59:26 AM EDT

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Smart people choose Function over Form.

Posted: 11/4/2018 5:11:41 AM EDT

[#11]

If you happen to catch any of the new Jersey Shore episodes, they had a "real doll" stand in for one of the girls that didn't want to do the reunion show. That poor thing got dirty and messed up really fast. Soft silicone rubber doesn't take the elements/dirt well. I could see a robot covered in a non ferrous metal or durable hard plastic lasting much longer than a soft skin android. Easier to keep clean and maintain too = Just hose the sucker down or soak in a sonic shower for a few minutes.

Posted: 11/4/2018 7:03:45 AM EDT

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The human form factor isn't really all that great for a robot. Why have a bipedal high-center-of-gravity robot when you could have a cheetah quadruped (for fast ground travel), a BB-8 ballbot (for roaming around in an office), something with tentacles (for moving and manipulation of objects), or something with treads on three sides (for moving through pipes)?

We are a "good" all-purpose shape only because we are used to how we move and behave. Otherwise, there are countless better designs for any specific purpose or even for most sort-of-general purposes.

Posted: 11/4/2018 11:43:29 AM EDT

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One of the early books - or adaptations, I don’t recall - said that basically all droids were reflective of how their builders’ looked.

So R2D2’s builders looked as much like him as we look like C3P0.

Dunno if that’s canon or not.

There are also probably purpose-built droids like the medical bot in Empire or the little toasters-on-wheels from the other movies.

Posted: 11/4/2018 11:49:41 AM EDT

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Yes.

Posted: 11/4/2018 11:56:47 AM EDT

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that asshole would fuck a wookie if given half a chance.

Posted: 11/4/2018 11:58:34 AM EDT

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Seems like they were built to perform a certain function.
Like the cylindrical medic droid that rotated to use a different tool. Makes sense.
Weren't gonk droids supposed to be a walking battery charger? That doesn't need to be anything other than a block with feet to walk over and charge your phone.

Posted: 11/4/2018 12:12:36 PM EDT

[#17]

The main reason I think, is that they weren't written into the script.

Posted: 11/4/2018 12:15:34 PM EDT

[#18]

Futurama-I Dated a Robot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrADTN-dvg

Posted: 11/4/2018 12:16:06 PM EDT

[#19]

Because they got out of the basement and found real pussy.

She might be green or blue though

Posted: 11/4/2018 12:20:09 PM EDT

[#20]

They are developing artificial muscles.

For a long time the problem was too little force per volume. Then it was high voltage. Then it was needing water.

Now they are making low voltage, non-aqueous artificial muscle that is approaching human-level force per volume.

The next problem is batteries.

Posted: 11/4/2018 12:20:53 PM EDT

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Seems like they were built to perform a certain function.
Like the cylindrical medic droid that rotated to use a different tool. Makes sense.
Weren't gonk droids supposed to be a walking battery charger? That doesn't need to be anything other than a block with feet to walk over and charge your phone.

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Basically this. 3P0 was humanoid because he was to interact with people as a role and it made them more comfortable. But even him with a good protocol processor would stand out like a sore thumb as not human if you put an Edgar suit on him, so why make things more weird by putting a skin on him.

Those real dolls are, IMHO, at an uncomfortable point reaching the uncanny valley.

Posted: 11/4/2018 12:28:00 PM EDT

[#22]

Guri from Shadows of the Empire. Not canon anymore, but it has been thought of.

Posted: 11/4/2018 12:34:40 PM EDT

[#23]

Parsec is a measure of distance, not time. That was probably the dumbest line in A New Hope.

Posted: 11/4/2018 12:36:42 PM EDT

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Luckily we had a while movie to explain that bit of technically incorrect writing away.

Posted: 11/4/2018 12:37:12 PM EDT

[#25]

I seem to remember Creepio being pretty obsessed with having skin.

Posted: 11/4/2018 12:40:27 PM EDT

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Posted: 11/4/2018 12:46:12 PM EDT

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The former EU/ now "Legends" had "pleasure model" droids listed in some of the RPG books, IIRC, and again, IIRC, one of the movies may give you a very brief glimpse of one. During Attack of the Clones, when Obi Wan and Annikin get to the group of Senators on Coruscant, there is one that could be that in the background. Or at one of the parties, or something. I haven't watched that steaming pile in years, so I don't remember.

ETA: They never really delve into it though. Remember, for decades anything Star Wars had to go straight through Lucasfilm for approval. And George Lucas wanted to make kids movies. Sorry you can't fap to SW sexbots, OP.

Posted: 11/4/2018 12:48:42 PM EDT

[#28]

They were all robots, except for the wookie, who became our first lady.

Posted: 11/4/2018 12:55:51 PM EDT

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What the fuck are you talking about? It is a measure of distance.

Posted: 11/4/2018 12:58:16 PM EDT

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Post-hoc made up rationalization to cover their mistake, IMO.

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:07:02 PM EDT

[#31]

because they are more visually interesting than making them humanoid real doll looking

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:10:45 PM EDT

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Droid prejudice. It's portrayed in the movies; most people treat droids like appliances, with few exceptions droids are barely tolerated as a necessity.

Also the Star Wars movies are pretty sterile as far as sex goes, even in the EU and especially in the prequels. ETA: But there is one "fully functional" droid I can think of, in Shadows of the Empire. She was a servant of Prince Xisor and looked completely human. And yeah, she did it all.

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This is the best answer. Once "superior" humanoid robots are a reality, that advanced humanity will recoil, rebel, and outlaw them. Droids are tolerated only.

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:12:59 PM EDT

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Been addressed a bazillion times.

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:13:31 PM EDT

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Post-hoc made up rationalization to cover their mistake, IMO.

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Post-hoc made up rationalization to cover their mistake, IMO.

It's real to me, dammit!

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:13:33 PM EDT

[#35]

Old universe. There was probably an abundance of humanoid bots thousands of years ago, before the destroyed them all and went industrial style only.

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:16:01 PM EDT

[#36]

Do you want a Butlerian Jihad?

Because that’s how you get a Butlerian Jihad.

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:16:06 PM EDT

[#37]

I read Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. And there is a humanoid female assassin robot in it.

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:17:31 PM EDT

[#38]

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Posted: 11/4/2018 1:28:43 PM EDT

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yes please

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:46:54 PM EDT

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One of the early books - or adaptations, I don’t recall - said that basically all droids were reflective of how their builders’ looked.

So R2D2’s builders looked as much like him as we look like C3P0.

Dunno if that’s canon or not.

There are also probably purpose-built droids like the medical bot in Empire or the little toasters-on-wheels from the other movies.

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None of the EU is canon anymore...

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:50:25 PM EDT

[#41]

For all you know C3P0 had a flesh toned glory hole under a flap of his shiny metal ass.

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:51:52 PM EDT

[#42]

Another example of how the (old) EU was better than the Canon.

HRDs such as Guri existed.

Star Wars is fucking dead.

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:53:16 PM EDT

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One of the early books - or adaptations, I don’t recall - said that basically all droids were reflective of how their builders’ looked.

So R2D2’s builders looked as much like him as we look like C3P0.

Dunno if that’s canon or not.

There are also probably purpose-built droids like the medical bot in Empire or the little toasters-on-wheels from the other movies.

None of the EU is canon anymore...

I should have clarified... If it was in the original film adaptations that's gonna be canon. I just don't remember if it was from one of the adaptations, or one of the early Brian Daley or Alan Dean Foster books (and thus not canon).

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:54:05 PM EDT

[#44]

its still impressive that you can take a robot, clamp it to the roof rack of your XWing exposing it to space and FTL speed, and go to war.

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:55:27 PM EDT

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I always thought that was a pretty cool concept.

Posted: 11/4/2018 1:58:27 PM EDT

[#46]

Because people won't just leave it be a movie made entirely for entertainment.

Posted: 11/4/2018 2:00:55 PM EDT

[#47]

When it looks like you it makes it harder to treat it like a toaster.

Imagine the articles you'd see in the Huffington post if intelligent machines looked just like people. The idiot left would put them on a pedestal and force businesess to pay them a "living wage" and give them humane work hours and human like living quarters. Hell, the lunatic left would probably want them to have Family Leave.