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December 14th, 2009, 13:05
http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/340x_sogo-robot.jpgWhat would you spend $225,000 on? An animated android, styled after yourself? Starting in January the Japanese store Sogo & Seibu will begin taking pre-orders for these "Actroids." They may not walk, but they can move their upper bodies.
Kokoro, the company which brought us those HRP-4C (http://gizmodo.com/5170498/the-hrp+4c-model-robot-is-programmed-to-workit) female androids back in 2005, will make these Actroids for Sogo & Seibu. Customers can record audio so the robots not only look like them but also sound like them, and "she also does the best work as a guide with her out-standing eye-catch effect!" Careful you don't fall for her eye-catch effect too hard, now. [Sankei News (http://sankei.jp.msn.com/economy/business/091211/biz0912111142014-n1.htm) via PlasticPals (http://www.plasticpals.com/?p=18714) and CrunchGear (http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/12/14/japanese-department-store-offers-robots-that-look-like-their-buyers/)]
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