Robot Model Mimu Debuts In Japan

From the country that brought us vending-machine dresses to hide from muggers comes the latest in technology and fashion: the robot model. In the video below, the robot model Mimu makes her runway debut dressed as a bride. "Today I'm wearing a wedding dress for the first time..." Mimu says, "I'm really happy."

Comments

[Cybersquirt]

04:26 PM on 07/25/2009

Blade Runner, here we come.

[futate01]

05:12 PM on 07/24/2009

and how's that robot different from a regular Japanese woman?

[AmandaBC]

05:17 PM on 07/24/2009

Now that is pretty offensive. Japanese women in their early sixties look like western women in their mid-fourties. Sad (for us western women), but true... If I were a man, I'd probably marry one. :)

[Christopher in NYC]

05:36 PM on 07/24/2009

... but let's not be nation-specific. The same goes, (staying looking young) for Chinese, Korean, Singaporean, and the rest of Asia as well.

For course there are some exceptions to the rule, but the genetic thing is pretty conclusive stuff.

[AmandaBC]

04:59 PM on 07/24/2009

Why do the Japanese have this extraordinary talent to make things very very creepy?

You know, something like this:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6141895/

[hegdehog]

04:20 PM on 07/24/2009

If you know anything about Japanese culture, you know how incredibly creepy it is that they chose to put this thing in a wedding dress. Fully-grown Japanese men buy these little Lolita-style sex dolls. They're very popular. Eew.

[TokyoCalling]

04:40 PM on 07/24/2009

I take offense to that remark. My son is half Japanese born and bred here in Tokyo. The culture is different but has a lot more to offer than whats on the plate back at home. No cops arresting professors, brilliant public transportation (best in the world), safe streets, technologically miles ahead of anything going on in the US. Public heathcare system for everyone (that not even up for debate here), No birther movement, etc etc etc.

Be careful calling this culture creepy, because to everyone else, whats happening in the US is creepy.

[Christopher in NYC]

04:49 PM on 07/24/2009

.... but you have to admit that the, "Lolita" fetish is pretty weird, eh?

[mypov123]

03:59 PM on 07/24/2009

Pretty cool, but the robot kind of scares me lol.

[gbrooks]

03:48 PM on 07/24/2009

On the plus side, the human models can start eating again. On the down side, the robot needs organic material for power.

And so it begins. . .

[sylvia-leopard]

03:45 PM on 07/24/2009

How intensely exciting.

[Forester]

03:29 PM on 07/24/2009

Fashion models are already robots - that's the joke.

[HC4BO]

03:10 PM on 07/24/2009

There goes the unemployment numbers ...

Now we have to compete with skinny, out of work models also ... !?

[hypnus]

02:36 PM on 07/24/2009

Nice pair of servos.

[Oomingmak]

03:41 PM on 07/24/2009

lol

[getalong]

02:24 PM on 07/24/2009

This is only the beginning.

It's only a matter of time before we have to contend with this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo-gGes6qig

[Christopher in NYC]

02:20 PM on 07/24/2009

THEN: "Sorry honey, I had some urgent business to attend to in Argentina..."

FUTURE: "Sorry honey, I had to work late at the office and tweak the robot a little...."

[HekmabaJuzimax]

02:08 PM on 07/24/2009

This must be a dream come true for basement nerds everywhere.

[cungar]

02:10 PM on 07/24/2009

Walking, talking REAL DOLLS

[Christopher in NYC]

02:05 PM on 07/24/2009

.... so now Styx have to change to lyrics to, "doomo arigato, "MS." roboto....."

[Moshe]

02:02 PM on 07/24/2009

Please do not post any video of the wedding night.

[gbrooks]

03:46 PM on 07/24/2009

C'mon, you know you're curious!