Japanese Robot Love
Newsweek magazine is running a beginners’ overview of the Japanese fetish for all things android.
The description and the expression on the face ‘Saya’ the fem-bot shown below is priceless.
Robot Love
Japan is obsessed with machines that have arms, legs and head and say ‘hello.’
Newsweek : 5:26 p.m. ET Aug. 9, 2006 …If she were anything other than a robot, Saya, the receptionist at the Science University of Tokyo, would have a very strong lawsuit against her employers. On a hot summer day last week, engineering students peered into her lifeless skull while her blouse was wide open, revealing—strangely enough for a robot—a brassiere. Which raises an important question: why do robots need underwear?...more...
A fun kultural kink to remember is that while in the West robots are generally cast as the evil “Terminator,” but in Japan robots are the friendly AstroBoy, Aibo and Asimo.
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