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Anchor:
Japanese software and hardware developer Sega
has developed EMA. Short for Eternal, Maiden,
Actualization - Ema, the 38 centimeter,
curvaceous cyborg blows kisses, sings and
shakes its grooved things.
Story:
Japan, home to robot babies, musicians and
pets, now has its first humanoid
hottie - Sega's E.M.A.
Short for Eternal, Maiden, Actualization, the
38 centimetre, curvaceous
cyborg blows kisses, sings and shakes its
grooved things.
Using infrared sensors and battery power, the
diminutive damsel offers
smooches to nearby human heads, entering what
designers call its "Love
Mode".
Sega's Minako Sakanoue says target consumers
are men over 20.
SOUNDBITE: MINAKO SAKANOUE, MEDIA AFFAIRS,
SEGA TOYS:
"She's very loveable and though she's not a
human, she can act like
a real girlfriend."
Japan, home to almost half the world's
800,000 industrial robots, envisions
a $10 billion A.I. market in a decade.
E.M.A, who also hands out business cards,
will strut her way to Japanese
store shelves by September for about $175,
and Sega hopes to sell 10,000 of
the adult-oriented androids within a year.
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