After a failed career of house cleaning and guarding your kids, Mitsubishi’s Wakamaru was left with a choice: toll booth operator or actress — she chose the latter, easier option. Osaka University’s 20-minute play titled, “I, Worker,” focuses on a young couple whose seductive (don’t you think?) housekeeping robot has lost her will to work after struggling with the idea of human servitude. The play is expected to go full-length by the year 2010, at which point we expect Wakamaru to extend her brooding to the insatiable lust she feels to violate her programming and enslave humanity. It’s not like she can pull off a broad emotional range thanks to that chiseled face of apprehension anyway.
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Wakamaru’s latest gig: distraught thespian, clothes rack originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:13:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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