I was at Japan Society this evening to see two short plays by Oriza Hirata, a production of Seinendan Theater Company and Osaka University Robot Theater Project. In the second play, I, Worker (Hataraku watashi), there were two robots interacting with two actors. In the first play there were two female characters, one is dying and the other reads poems to console her; throughout the play I was in no doubt that one of them was an actress simulating a robot; but the woman on our left in this scene was a geminoid-f, which moves the mouth, smiles, frowns, tilts her head, and gesticulates. I was totally deceived.
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