Photographer: Steven Meisel
Model: Agyness Deyn, Blaine Cook, Caroline Trentini, Chad Dunn, Chad White, Daniel Pimentel, Isaac Haldeman, Julia Stegner, Missy Rayder, Nathan Nesbitt, Oraine Barrett, Raquel Zimmermann, Rodrigo Calazans, Travone Hill

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While that perv in the back is busy shooting HRP-4C’s firm buttocks shaped from a glossy Stormtrooper alloy, the rest of us can marvel at the fact that Japan has produced a walking, talking fashion robot. Standing at just over 5-feet tall and 95-pounds, HRP-4C, developed by Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, will make its catwalk debut next week at the Tokyo fashion show. The she-bot features 30 motors spread throughout its body with an additional eight motors in its face for expressing general boredom and disgust with the help. Its main purpose is entertainment and to attract crowds much like its fleshy counterparts — so don’t expect home cooked meals and laundry service should you take the 0,000 robot home. Unfortunately, HRP-4C didn’t function as planned today. Reports say that the robot, “kept looking surprised, opening its mouth and eyes in a stunned expression, when the demonstrator had asked it to smile or look angry.” Hmm, sounds like a fully functional model-slash-actress to us.

[Via Straits Times]

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Japan’s HRP-4C ‘fashion model robot’ unveiled, already harassed originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The HRP-4C robot was not programmed to please the famlies like Asimo. Rather, she hopes to take the fashion world by storm as Tokyo’s next top model.

But can a hulking robot be a model?

Even though the HRP-4C packs 42 motors, at just over 5 feet tall and 95 pounds in weight, she’s still thin enough to guilt teenage girls everywhere into puking up their lunches. And the manga-inspired face, with a tiny nose and large eyes, should keep the plastic surgery market afloat in even the most dire economic climate.

Unlike modern models, however, the HRP-4C walks down the runway with constantly bent knees and it fully capable of smiling.

In case you are looking for an HRP-4C of your own, a similar model will cost you million. Otherwise, you can check her out again during the Tokyo fashion show on March 23rd. [Straights Times via Engadget and Getty Images]

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Anyhoo, that didn’t go quite as I expected in the search for these things. For one thing, I expected to see some kind of link to a fetish site for Brides with weapons but… I didn’t. Not that I was looking for it of course but that hardly stops links appearing on searches… now Bride Rapes, there was some of that but… well, that’s the bloody internet for you, isn’t it?

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