Say what you will about the sci-fi oddity that was A.I. Artificial Intelligence, but Spielberg's robot-centric vision of the future just took a pole-dancing, hip-grinding step toward reality. At this year's CeBIT expo in Hannover, Germany a trio of robots took to the stage. Standing at center stage, a megaphone-headed announcer introduced its two companions: pole-dancers with surveillance cameras for their heads.
The robot pole-dancer project has been going on for a few years now, but this year's models feature more color-changing lights and "enhanced" chests. Also new is an app that allows the dancer-bots' controllers to change each dancer's positions and what colors of light it gives off.
Originally designed by British artist Giles Walker, the robots can actually be rented by anyone willing to pony up $40,000 per event. Maybe the absence of real women debasing themselves will provide a sort of upstanding allure for some, but we can't help but think that app-controlled, customizable robots could probably find something more productive to do with their time. At the very least, we can think of better ways to drop 40k. VIDEO
RuptlyTV, via The Verge
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