Robots Share Stage With Actors in New Show

A dying girl pressed a humanoid robot's hand to her face as the robot began reciting poetry. The scene showed a story from the future, and was acted out by a human actress and an android during a North American tour of the Japanese Robot Theater Project.

The robot theater first came to life four years ago when a playwright teamed up with a robotics researcher at Osaka University in Japan. Together, they created scenarios in which robots acted as personal companions or household servants, short plays such as "Sayonara" and "I, Worker" that became part of the double-bill stage production presented at the Japan Society in New York Feb. 79.

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