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Japan's Robot Actor (video)
Forget canned music—how about canned acting? Japan's newest acting sensation isn't a human but rather an android. That's right—a robot named Geminoid F is the newest spectacle to pop-up on a Japanese stage. In this BBC report, one of Gemioid's co-stars (not surprisingly) says, "There's a bit of a distance there." (really?! Well, it's a robot!)
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