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June 17, 2008

New gynoid from Sega

Sega has announced E.M.A. (Eternal, Maiden, Actualization), which appears to be the mutant offspring of a geisha and an aibo. All the important feminine characteristics are accounted for: good looks, dancing, singing, and of course kissing. I guess we’ve had “male” robots that do stereotypical boy stuff for ages (lifting shit, and of course rock ‘n em and sock ‘n em), but the strange pseudo-gendering aspect just doesn’t stand out as much.

I can’t decide whether having one would be cute and naughty/kitschy, or unseemly in a mechanical lesbian love-slave sort of way. Strangely I think the difference rests largely on what side of the Pacific you are on.