[lelanthran]

> If getting jiggy with an industrial machine that could tear you in half is what floats your boat...

People already get jiggy with other people who could easily bite off important bits.

The issue is trust, and I think that even with the simplest of failsafes[1], the machine juggling your important bits can be made more trustworthy than the human currently doing it.

[1] For example, failing in an off position, or using equipment that, even if overdriven at full force, will not have enough force to do damage. Having the clamping or piston mechanism driven off a spring can ensure that the maximum force applied depends on the stiffness of the spring, which gets softer with age, not harder.

There's multiple ways currently being used to make machines that interact with humans safe for humans no matter what happens.

[gattr]

Even if they make perfectly human-like, realistically acting sexbots with HW failsafes, there's the question of trusting the SW. It would be inadvisable to use such a black-box proprietary machine which is probably recording and sending detailed (and potentially embarrassing) telemetry. I'd expect a long wait for community-designed, open-source equivalents.

[toast0]

> force applied depends on the stiffness of the spring, which gets softer with age, not harder

But wasn't that the problem OP was trying to solve ;)