I-Fairy Robot Officiates Wedding
The wedding ceremony was led by “I-Fairy”, a 4-foot (1.5 meter) tall seated robot with flashing eyes and plastic pigtails. It had flashing eyes to confirm its messages to humans during the ceremony and it wore a wreath of flowers, a tiny voice, and waves its arms. The wedding took place at a restaurant in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo and had a rooftop ceremony. I-Fairy had wires led out from beneath it to a black curtain just a few meters away where a man crouched and clicked commands into a computer.
The couple decided to use a robot to officiate their wedding since they are both connected with Japan’s thriving robotics industry and it was through project making robots that they met. The Bride Satoko Inoue, who works at Kokoro, said “This was a lot of fun. I think that Japanese have a strong sense that robots are our friends. Those in the robot industry mostly understand this, but people mainly want robots near them that serve some purpose.” The Groom Tomohiro Shibata, a professor of robotics at the Nara Institute of Science and Technology in central Japan, said “It would be nice if the robot was a bit more clever, but she is very good at expressing herself.”
Kokoro, the manufacturer of I-Fairy, also makes giant dinosaur robots for exhibitions and lifelike android models that can smile and laugh. It is a subsidiary of Sanrio Co.
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