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‘I wanted to do something sexy with rubbish’: pole-dancing robots heat up consumer electronics show in Las Vegas
No one would confuse the robots with real strippers, with a head made from a jettisoned surveillance camera and the rest from bits of scrap material
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They grind and gyrate around a pole, with moves like a real stripper. But these dancers are robots, brought in to offer a new entertainment twist to the crowds descending on Las Vegas this week for the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
The robo-strippers are the creation of British artist Giles Walker, who said he designed the vaguely humanoid machines as an expression about surveillance, power and voyeurism.
No one would confuse the robots with real strippers, with a head made from a jettisoned surveillance camera and the rest from bits of scrap material from mannequins and car parts.
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“I wanted to do something sexy with rubbish,” Walker said at the Sapphire Gentleman’s Club a few blocks off the Vegas Strip at a media event Monday night which was not part of the official CES programme.
Artificial intelligence? Don’t even think about it. These strippers are powered with recovered windscreen wiper motors and the artist’s sense of feminine style.
There are a lot of people with weird fetishes so I am sure somebody will get turned on by that
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