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In Pictures: The year in madly cool robots

From giants to itsy-bitsy shape shifters, robots are hot
  • By Michael Cooney
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A customer looks on as a 3.6 meter-high custom-made female cabaret robot at the newly opened "Robot Restaurant" in Kabukicho, one of Tokyo's red light districts.

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