Japan is fascinated by robots and robotics, and the nation is a leading manufacturer of both industrial and recreational robots. So they developed a girlfriend-who-is-a-busty-little-robot/busty-little-robot-who-is-your-girlfriend.

EMA--Eternal Maiden Actualization--from Sega.

uk.reuters.com/article/te...62420080618

"She's very lovable and though she's not a human, she can act like a real girlfriend."

I have a few small toy robots and remote control toys (proto robots) that I got back in the 80s, when the robot craze had one of its peaks. At the time, I worked for a cutting edge comics retailer. One of my jobs was to buy Japanese robot toys--mecha figures, transforming figures,
a few "cute" figures, some monster figures.

I look at this little robot as continuing the Japanese fascination with recreational robots, toys that can tickle a playful fancy. Its design and repertoire of actions link up with several decades of popular culture entertainment (comics, animations) in Japan centered on robots. Plus a Japanese pop culture fascination with the theme of "cuteness."

As the article suggests, these little robots are mostly aimed at fans of robot characters/toys and collectors of gadgets.

Of course, the robot girlfriend also intersects the half-underground erotic robotic movement that flowered sorta in parallel to the fannish, sci-fi comic, book, toy movement. Robot girlfriends are EroBoto Action figures! HOT! NUDE! ANDROIDS!

Additional links to Erotic Robots resources:

Fogonazos--Fotos of robot eroticism in the movies and comics. Lots of "Forbidden Planet" plus nude girls hugging Daleks (Daleks are semi-robotic.)

fogonazos.blogspot.com/2006/1...26.html

Abortion, Robots, and The Labia Majora--posted on Susie Bright's Journal. Who else would know lots about Robot Erotica? Read the blog post. Click the links. Lust and learn...

susiebright.blogs.com/susie_b...ots.html

Sorayama: Robots & Gynoids--The artist who made shiny metal babe bots so popular!

www.sorayama.net/categories.html

Real Dolls--the body part of the Erotic Robot. Awaiting the robotic works to re-animate the flesh-like doll.

www.realdoll.com/cgi-bin/snav.rd


grafik from: blogs.spectrum.ieee.org/ automaton/robot_love.jpg