The Miraikan is Tokyo's Premiere Emerging Science and Technology Museum. Japan and Robots in my mind just go hand so it's was no surprise to find several robots at this museum...but why are they all so incredibly creepy?
The first robot display had fembot lounging on a couch in a typical casual Japanese soccer mom type attire. She smiled and waved, perfectly coifed and manicured. Her voice was high pitched and saccharin sweet - the entire tableau made my skin crawl.
The next robot exhibit allowed you to have "fun" with the robots in a singing game. These robots sang a song perhaps known only to Japanese folks and they sang it over and over, faster and faster. This song will haunt my dreams now to the end of my days.
The final robot experience was very odd. You went into this black corridor and to the right was a slit cut out of the wall at eye level. Through this slit in the wall you could see a bright white room almost glowing and a robot sitting on the side of what looked like a like a hospital bed. The woman robot in this scene had what appeared to be a white hospital gown. With no instruction or indicators for interaction we all just stood there waiting for something to happen. After a few minutes of silence just standing there looking at the robot with all the other visitors, Elizabeth in a rather loud voice asked why the robot was in a white hospital gown. I quickly answered that the robot had just been abducted by aliens and wash happily waiting for the medical experiments to start 😜.
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