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Japan's uncannily realistic robots have been creeping us out for
years, but one was deemed emotive enough to have a stint on stage --
yesterday evening, Hiroshi Ishiguro's Geminoid-F made its debut in a
Japanese play. It's a fairly small step for robotkind, really, as the
android was completely controlled by a real-life human actress from a
soundproof room behind the stage, and no attempt was made to pass off
the robot as human, as Geminoid portrays a caretaker android assigned
to a dying girl. Still, the possibilities must have Hollywood agents
agape -- it's only a matter of time before the world's highest paid
actors can literally phone in their lines.
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