Japanese Develop 'Female' Android

jolyon writes "The BBC is reporting that Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised - a "female" android called Repliee Q1. 'She' has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, can flutter her eyelids, move her hands like a human and even appears to breathe. She can only sit though at present, so we're a long way from Blade Runner yet."

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Re:Meanwhile in real life

[bheer]

As I said, grain of salt. The point was to compare the robot-loving image of the Japanese with the Spacers (and that's not a put-down in my book), not drill into Japanese immigration policy.

That said, my understanding of Japan's immigration policy is: guest workers (if they're skilled) are welcome, unskilled immigration is currently not. I have heard that citizenship checks are quite a bit more onerous than Europe/US though not (given Japanese culture) onerously so.

First application -- sex industry

[podperson]

This is basically a real doll with a motor... would renting these things out in electric brothels even be technically illegal? New laws will no doubt have to be passed.