Japan's new Robot Restaurant presents cabaret dances from giant female android robots - remote-operated fembots that can also be operated by customers.
(Robot Restaurant video)
The restaurant is located near the heart of Kabuchiko in Shinjuku. A fee of 3000 yen - about fifty dollars - allows entry to the robot show and a drink.
SF film fans are of course familiar with robot waiters; R2D2 served as a robotic waiter on Jabba's sailbarge, and the waitress WA-7 from Star Wars II Attack of the Clones.
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