Robot Actress Makes Stage Debut In Japan

Robotron23 writes "The BBC reports that a robot named Geminoid-F has made its acting debut (video) in Japan. The short play in which it appeared was a sellout with the Japanese public, who were curious to see the robot's performance. However an actress who co-starred pointed out that the lack of human presence made the droid difficult to act alongside."

Comments

Re:Elephant in the room

[MacGyver2210]

It seems like for whatever reason, Japan doesn't trust foreigners to respect its traditions. In doing so, they completely disrespect the foreigners without giving them a chance. It's nearly a no-win situation with the only viable solution being to maintain a work visa for long enough to marry someone Japanese (and then wait some more) or just wait it out long enough to be granted citizenship (often 10 years or more).

Even this won't often stop the prejudice like "No Foreigner" shops and restaurants, or extensive police profiling based on race. God forbid you're white and you walk through Akihabara at 4AM...

Re:Not very talented

[Hognoxious]

Gibberish, you utter fop. If you can imagine something where there's nothing you can imagine something else (or nothing) where there's something.

It's all about the body hair, man!

[Fantastic Lad]

Art emulates life.

Seriously; the subconscious tries to recreate and understand itself through art by creating something to look at and evaluate with the senses, thus giving the intellect something to latch onto. The so-called, "Mirror" people talk about when discussing art. It's SO true.

Japan and China are hyper-controlled societies, people take orders and cram themselves into the pre-designated roles with great facility, even obsessive drive.

I remember watching a video of a punk rock convention in Japan. There was a lot of dyed hair and studded leather. But the most astonishing part was this one shot where a couple hundred "Punk Rockers" were all doing an angry head-bangy dance, while all perfectly lined up, toes to a chalk line on the ground they were not supposed to cross as per the rules of their punk rock convention.

That said it all.

This is why, I think, when the big culling comes about, the last populations which will be allowed to live (in serfdom) will be Asian DNA groups. They've been genetically designed to obey better and repress each other better, while fearing openness, trust and love.

That robot video gave me chills in a very bad way.

-FL

Re:It's all about the body hair, man!

[Fantastic Lad]

Leaping from there to the square on your 'Jump to Conclusions' mat labeled "they fear trust and love" is hilarious in that insulting-but-okay-because-its-so-retarded way.

It's not universal by any means, but I've spent a lot of time with different groups of Chinese Asians in a variety of different circumstances and honestly, the top-down pecking order structure is always a shade away from organized crime standards where one's guard must be up at all times even among, 'friends'. It's enough to make me want to kiss the Western Earth beneath my feet. If you haven't seen the kind of behavior I'm talking about, it can only be because you haven't looked.

It's a combination of genetics, a few thousand years of social programming and I think language as well. The words and methods we use to learn to write and speak wire our brains from a young age. And yeah, that's racist but it's also true. --It doesn't mean I hate anybody for it and it certainly doesn't mean that people can't choose against their genetic and social programming, (the amazing thing about souls is that they are very powerful in this regard), but it takes both awareness and will-power to step beyond one's mechanical nature. Very few people are capable of that no matter what land mass they happen to live on.

How's my performance keeping up?

-FL