Tokyo's Robot Restaurant
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In a restaurant down an alley in one of Tokyo’s best-known red light districts, four massive female robots wink and wave as they lumber to the beat of traditional Japanese drums and a Lady Gaga dance tune. It’s show time at the [Robot Restaurant,] a high-tech take on the city’s decades-old cabaret scene that puts a friendly, if unusual, face on the robot technology in which Japan is a world leader. More than half the world’s industrial robots are used here, but the featured performers at the brand-new venue, which owners say cost 10 billion yen (US$125.8 million) and took three years to build, are 3.6 meter-high, custom-made female robots with facial features controlled by the club’s women dancers. The lower half of each robot resembles the iconic Japanese character Gundam on wheels, while its curvaceous human-like upper body is clad in a futuristic gladiator outfit. They have blonde, brown or red hair with blue or green eyes. Each is controlled by two bikini-clad women, who perch in a high seat attached to the robot’s stomach and control the facial features and legs using joysticks attached to the seats for the hour-long [Fighting Females] performance. (Photos by Yuriko Nakao/Reuters/Tokyo Scum Brigade)
![Bikini-clad women (L) sit as they operate a 3.6 metre-high custom-made female robot as customers take photos, at the [Robot Restaurant] in Kabukicho, one of Tokyo's best-known red light districts, August 16, 2012. (Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/app/2013/0000fdf1_big.jpg "Bikini-clad women (L) sit as they operate a 3.6 metre-high custom-made female robot as customers take photos, at the [Robot Restaurant] in Kabukicho, one of Tokyo's best-known red light districts, August 16, 2012. (Photo by Yuriko Nakao/Reuters)")
![Bikini-clad women sit as they operate a 3.6 metre-high custom-made female robot as customers take photos, at the [Robot Restaurant] in Kabukicho. (Photo by Tokyo Scum Brigade)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/app/2013/0000fdf2_big.jpg "Bikini-clad women sit as they operate a 3.6 metre-high custom-made female robot as customers take photos, at the [Robot Restaurant] in Kabukicho. (Photo by Tokyo Scum Brigade)")
![Bikini-clad women sit as they operate a 3.6 metre-high custom-made female robot at the newly opened [Robot Restaurant] in Kabukicho, one of Tokyo's best known red light districts. (Photo by Tokyo Scum Brigade)](http://img.gagdaily.com/uploads/posts/app/2013/0000fdf4_big.jpg "Bikini-clad women sit as they operate a 3.6 metre-high custom-made female robot at the newly opened [Robot Restaurant] in Kabukicho, one of Tokyo's best known red light districts. (Photo by Tokyo Scum Brigade)")
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