The Japanese Robot Fashion model, HRP-4C, has taken her first walk on the runway. As a bride. Predictably, everyone is like: “How creepy! A robot bride?! The Japanese are crazy and want to marry robots! Let’s never go to war with them again.”
I have a slightly more prosaic explanation.
My guess is that they chose a wedding gown for the same reasons many a rushed bride has: It covers the shape of HRP-4C’s body. I’m not saying the robot is pregnant -for now, that’s crazy talk– but she might as well be.
She has a strange body. Aside from a Burqa, a wedding gown is just about the only thing that could make her look normal. What would you dress her in? A form fitting skirt? How’d that look?
A further clue to this is that the song she’s walking to. “Billie Jean” by Michael Jackson. In this obscure pop ditty, some fellow denies parentage of a boy-child. “Papa was a Rolling Stone” would have been also been an appropriate, if less timely choice, though, sadly, it would have dodged the meta-question of fake brides and human modification.
And, God knows, would anyone even be surprised if it turned out HRP-4C was pregnant with Michael Jackson’s baby? I figure that would register pretty low on the crazy scale he set. Somewhere above Bubbles and below dangling his so-called kid off a balcony.
