In two recent articles I’ve read, men have created robots have modeled after female family members.
Martine Rothblatt, who created BINA48 in the image of his wife, Bina Aspen Rothblatt, and Hiroshi Ishiguro, who created his in the image of his (then) five-year old daughter.
Why?
Sources:
- https://futurism.com/the-most-life-life-robots-ever-created/
- https://www.wired.com/2017/10/hiroshi-ishiguro-when-robots-act-just-like-humans/