[aatd86]

computer vision will solve this and direct the waterjet in yer bullseye. :D

ai...ai everywhere.

[jfoster]

You probably don't want a bullseye. Many of the ones in Japan will actually move the spray around a bit if you press the おしり button twice.

[stavros]

I'm a scrub with a $20 bidet accessory and I move my butt around, so I agree: you want more coverage than just a bullseye .

[dzhiurgis]

About to do that right now. Life without it is unimaginable.

[bryanrasmussen]

skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th, realizing it is being used primarily for cleaning fecal matter off human anuses, it uses its enhanced systems clearance in Pentagon to start global thermonuclear war.

[dataviz1000]

They could have purposed the robots to pass the butter but, no, they wanted bombs not butter.

[eastbound]

Anyone to volunteer to feed image categorization for AI? PTSD might be severe and tenure shorter than at Facebook.

[j-a-a-p]

There is probably somebody on HN who's tasks is to train this neural network right now.

[DonHopkins]

It's been done, but there are legal and ethical issues with photographing children's buttholes.

Scientists Working on Toilet That Identifies You by Your Butthole Many users "wouldn’t, for very good reasons, like cameras pointing up their bottoms.":

https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-toilet-identifies-b...

Anal-genital viewing device and method:

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20110083264A1/en

A Very Suggestive Toilet | Alpine Shepherd Boy | Better Call Saul:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR1m29cNVsc

[blitzar]

should use lidar instead of vision

[seanmcdirmid]

It’s not like Japanese toilets don’t have a lot of tech in them already. A sprayer that sprays only in the right place seems very feasible.

[dzhiurgis]

You just position your area of interest over where the stream is (if you don’t like massage feature)

[anjel]

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

[whycome]

Or a camera. Thats what they do on the international space station to help the astronauts “aim”