I-Fairy weds a couple of Japanese robot geeks (video)
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Don’t act surprised. Japan, the land that just can’t get enough of robots — whether it’s for cooking, entertainment or interstellar warfare — now also conducts its weddings with the help of a ceremonial drone. Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue, who met in the course of their work in robotics, decided that getting married with the help of the I-Fairy bot you see above was a “natural choice.” We’ll just assume that’s a translational quirk and not an ultra-ironic statement from the happy couple. The I-Fairy isn’t quite as realistic as some of Kokoro‘s other humanoids, but it does come with flashing, anime-sized eyes, which we’re gonna go ahead and assume are popular over in Nippon. Video after the break.
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