I-Fairy weds a couple of Japanese robot geeks (video)

Don't act surprised. Japan, the land that just can't get enough of robots -- whether it's for cooking, entertainment or interstellar warfare -- now also conducts its weddings with the help of a ceremonial drone. Tomohiro Shibata and Satoko Inoue, who met in the course of their work in robotics, decided that getting married with the help of the I-Fairy bot you see above was a "natural choice." We'll just assume that's a translational quirk and not an ultra-ironic statement from the happy couple. The I-Fairy isn't quite as realistic as some of Kokoro's other humanoids, but it does come with flashing, anime-sized eyes, which we're gonna go ahead and assume are popular over in Nippon. Video after the break.

[bigcow05 Posted May 17th 2010 5:08AM]

Wasn't Isaac Asimov's first law of robotics that a robot should not harm a human?

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[dystroglycan Posted May 17th 2010 5:13AM]

@bigcow05
no harm here, just plenty of awkwardness

[bigcow05 Posted May 17th 2010 5:34AM]

@dystroglycan

You missed the joke :D

[spaceye Posted May 17th 2010 6:30AM]

@bigcow05 Brilliant joke, mate! Though I hope there will be peace in this new Japanese family.

[mericahenrics Posted May 17th 2010 7:29AM]

@bigcow05 In Japan you can see things that are related to this. Didn't we have SAL900 before who got himself a real marriage over a video-game. http://j.mp/marry-a-computer-game-best-worst

[amnya Posted May 19th 2010 4:29AM]

@bigcow05 Loool, this is by far the best fast joke i've ever heard, hahahahha, Good one mate :)

[fais Posted May 17th 2010 5:12AM]

Quote from the Bride -
‘I think Japanese have a strong sense that robots are our friends.’

Quote from me-
"Japan will be the first nation to fall"

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/826425-i-fairy-is-first-ever-robot-wedding-host

[NewBie Posted May 17th 2010 5:31AM]

@fais There is no weird acts in your country?

[fais Posted May 17th 2010 6:15AM]

@NewBie

Only in some car parks.

[glenskey Posted May 17th 2010 5:16AM]

take THAT christianity!

[NewBie Posted May 17th 2010 5:32AM]

@glenskey What has this to do with Christianity?

[glenskey Posted May 17th 2010 5:37AM]

@NewBie
well, i can imagine that the pope and many priests alike would be scoffing right now..

[TinWard Posted May 17th 2010 10:32AM]

@glenskey That would only happen if the robot is called Bender. They hate gays and women but a robot wouldn't complain if they tried to put their penis in it.

I was kinda hoping the robot would go psycho red-eye and cut them in half. Maybe I've been spoiled by violent movies as a kid.

[putte Posted May 18th 2010 7:19AM]

@glenskey
They should have used the GOD JESUS robot: http://www.botjunkie.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/god_jesus.jpg

[detonator Posted May 17th 2010 5:19AM]

and then the eyes turned red

[Wiggy Fuzz Posted May 17th 2010 5:33AM]

@detonator

and fuse the two humans together. because that's marriage to a robot - a merger

[Techtrino Posted May 17th 2010 5:27AM]

One small step for I-Fairy, but a gigant leap for Skynet.

Hmm I wonder if it runs Crysis

[schneiderman Posted May 17th 2010 5:51AM]

Can someone say ultra awkward? Well maybe in Japan it isn't..

[varera Posted May 17th 2010 7:16AM]

@schneiderman

Japan is ultra awkward by itself

[fais Posted May 17th 2010 6:10AM]

@Darkroom

Yep a disco ball comes out of it's head.

[Peppis Posted May 17th 2010 6:48AM]

You should have seen the robot for funerals.

[Bratyr Posted May 17th 2010 7:37AM]

Most awkward wedding kiss ever

[misterhearn Posted May 17th 2010 7:39AM]

To each his own but this is pretty weird, I see marriage as man, woman and God, this is very unnatural, I wouldnt call this unethical, just very different, it beats getting married by an elvis impersonator or at a drive thru in vegas

[das boot Posted May 17th 2010 8:37AM]

so after the robot performed the ceremony, it went beserk and killed everyone.

come on people, stop making robots. they'll only be our downfall.

[EagleEye89 Posted May 17th 2010 10:02AM]

I do not hope they need this thing
on there wedding night ;)

[acn010 Posted May 17th 2010 10:58AM]

@fais
Lol and play the song ymca XD

[acn010 Posted May 17th 2010 11:01AM]

And soon real androids....

[marmaduke Posted May 17th 2010 11:08AM]

I now pronounce you geek and nerd…

[Plazmic Flame Posted May 17th 2010 11:21AM]

Very disturbing....

[drhappy Posted May 17th 2010 12:23PM]

best wedding kiss eveeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrr at 0:57

[BosteroNYC Posted May 17th 2010 12:55PM]

@drhappy LMAO!!!!!!!!!!

[GeneralThade Posted May 17th 2010 1:59PM]

@drhappy

It looked like brother and sister being forced to kiss each other.

[BosteroNYC Posted May 17th 2010 12:53PM]

I won't be impressed until I see a robot deliver their baby.

[FADE Posted May 17th 2010 1:01PM]

I wonder how a robot applies for a marriage license?

[GeneralThade Posted May 17th 2010 1:57PM]

Japan's obsession with robots is becoming cause for concern.

[victorstuber Posted May 17th 2010 5:12PM]

I would be more impressed if this was an autonomous robot that could perform ceremonies rather than a pre-programmed ceremony. Whats the point of a robot when it takes hundreds of hours to program that specific movement/speech

[F C Posted May 17th 2010 6:47PM]

:D
What an eager bastard - garter already in hand during the ceremony (~1:28). Cant blame him tho; she's hot!

[delicatessen lama Posted May 18th 2010 1:27AM]

If you think that is weird, I want to adopt GladOS and use her to take over the world, right before she kills me.