Broken condoms are a serious concern, not only for those who break them, but the companies who manufacture them. When studying the common reasons for breakage, a coital robot was used to simulate usage. Though it isn’t much of a robot, consisting mainly of simple pneumatics, it does serve its purpose. The study was able to determine the most common cause of breakage, and hopefully this information will lead to less occurrences. Robots do exist in the sex industry, and not just in that speculative future sex bot sense. Why weren’t any bots of a sexual background included in the big picture? The comments might want to stray towards future tech and possibilities, but we’re curious what there is out there currently and how robots are helping the industry.
I like how one person makes a comment about the arduino-spam and they had said exactly what everyone was thinking.
THIS ISN’T A HACK IT’S GOT NO ARDUINOS
You could probably get volunteers to do this for free at less than the cost of the robot…
It is not about the ‘cost’ but consistency. You do NOT want to skew the results. You must research things SCIENTIFICALLY so that the results can be refuted under the same conditions and cause/produce the same result.
Now someone needs to upload a video of the robot working with some porn music in it.
“Though it isn’t much of a robot, consisting mainly of simple pneumatics, it does serve its purpose.”
Why is it anything that moves is now called a robot? What exactly is the logic in putting this up as a “robot”? Even the original article doesn’t make that claim.
How is it not a robot? If it’s not a robot then either is a roomba, or one of those car assembly welding arms.
cerberus completely missed the point
ill test them :3
The International Organization for Standardization gives a definition of robot in ISO 8373: “an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose, manipulator programmable in three or more axes, which may be either fixed in place or mobile for use in industrial automation applications.”[3] This definition is used by the International Federation of Robotics, the European Robotics Research Network (EURON), and many national standards committees.
To focus on “reprogrammable, multipurpose, manipulator”, it would seem that vacuum cleaners and condom stress testers are not “multipurpose”, but those “Assembly Welding Arms” that Derek mentioned certainly would be.
But common usage has redefined “robot” as almost anything that moves.
i wish this had the tag “dildonics”
Can this robot work as nut cracker ?
obligatory:
Bow Chicka Wowww wow
how about an NSFW warning on the “robots do exist” link…
cerberus: skewing is what you want. if you are trying to break a condom
So, who’s the poor bastard stuck w/this job? I can just imagine the conversation when meeting new people:
random person: “so what do you do for a living?”
poor bastard : “well, I watch robots f*ck.”
random person: “….”
I’m trying to figure out what it must have felt like for a Cambridge researcher to put a dildo on a requisition list (and who was the pre-authorized supplier?!?!??)
LOL, Most of the people on here have never had the opportunity to use a condom.
thats why they built a machine rather than conclude that the best way to test a condom would be to actually have sex…
THAT IS A BIG DICK!
FROM AUGUST 17 2009 – GIZMODO.COM
http://gizmodo.com/5339097/blunt-puncture-condom-tester-is-the-least-sexy-machine-with-a-penis-ever
sad they didn’t nab the printer hacked to play the harmonica from their site too… or is that tomorrow’s hackaday..
Chika Chika Pow pow…..
— “Love is in the air” by Barry Manilow playing in backround….
Ummmmm They’ve been making these for years, Hasn’t anyone else seen all those fucking machine? Although their is usually a girl on the other end of them ;)
@chris,
these things are often submitted to many sites. In this case though, we got it from boingboing… which you can clearly see by clicking on the link that goes to boingboing.
Well technically you can take the “receiving” end off of the machine. And im pretty sure that the pneumatics are not controlled by an operator . . . so it could be reprogrammed and serve other uses. If you wanted to you could take the dildo off, add a butter knife perpendicular and a piece of toast with some jam . . . you get the picture, I hope.
Bar smalltalk with one of the engineers for this company:
bar person: “so what do you do for a living?”
engineer : “I make f*cking robots.”
bar person: “sorry, just asking, no need to get all ugly about it.”
This is a debasement of science
seriously – who spec’d the size on that thing?!? my gawd!
Am I the only one that doesn’t think that it’s exceptionally huge? Maybe I should peek over urinals, I must be gifted and not know about it.
I’d have to agree. I got worried that was average and thus I was average.
what, no video?
Now mechanical, repetitive sex isn’t just for the married anymore.
Don’t show this to the Bus Pirate.
They have to test the whole thing. You generally don’t use the whole length of the condom, unless you are quite blessed.
It would also be at least as thicker (or more than) the target users, for reasons obvious if you think of the stresses involved.
Given that these are not easily adjustable attributes, I would venture to guess they have an attachment for various dimensions.
“Knowledge of the main mechanism of breakage should help develop better user instructions, better test methods and, ultimately, better condoms.”
Better user instructions?
Step 1) Pinch tip of condom
Step 2) Place condom on head of penis
Step 3) Unroll condom down the length of penis
Step 4) Ensure vagina is well lubricated.
Step 5) *Gently* insert penis, straight and evenly into adequately large vagina.
Disclaimer: The manufacture of this condom can not be held responsive if condom breakage occurs during use on a abnormally sized penis, with a partner experiencing “personal dryness” or during sex.
Naturally, they cut the balls off this robot to prevent overpopulation. We wouldn’t want failed robot condoms to lead to their taking over the world now would we?
lol, wut. ok i demand a video.
yeah but the f**ing machines aren’t robots…I know a guy who has one and it consists of a d*ldo attached to a saws-all. Not too robotic.