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Unique wedding venues have included skydivers leaping from planes and scuba divers submerged below the Deep Blue. Bridal parties of recent date have been known to rock 'n roll down the aisle. However those that actually conduct the ceremony are usually human, albeit the Elvis Presley impersonators you might be able to hire in Vegas. So exchanging your vows with the aid of a robot minister is definitely a 21st Century first.

While all eyes are usually on the bride, a 4-foot robot assembled by a company called i-Fairy stole the show when Satoko Inoue and Tomohiro Shibata said their "I Do's."

Requesting the robot was the result of the couple meeting in a world populated by robots. The bride Satoko who works for i-Fairy met her husband when he became a client of the company. "It's true that robots are what caused us to first begin going out, and as suggested by my wife, we decided that we wanted to try this sort of wedding," Shibata said after making his vows."

Since Japan is home to almost half the world's 800,000 industrial robots in an industry that is approaching $10 billion, it was fitting that the i-Fairy robot conduct this ceremony.

After saying "I do," the bride said that she wanted to use her wedding to show people that robots can easily fit into their daily lives.

"I always felt that robots would become more integrated into people's everyday lives. This cute robot is part of my company, I decided that I would love to have it at my ceremony," Inoue said.

While the video is in Japanese, you gotta love this robot's ability to deliver its lines, without any slip-ups. The floral headdress and plastic pigtails seems to indicate that this robot is not your run-of-the-mill robot priest … but more likely, a robot priestess!


相关中文报道：

这款最新机器人被称为“我是小仙子”，它身高1.5米，长着“闪光的眼睛”和塑料辫子，5月16日，它首次在一场婚礼上亮相。面对50多位参加婚礼的宾客，它的手臂在空中挥动，使用尖细的声音说：“请掀起新娘的面纱。”

这场独特的婚礼举行在东京市赫比亚公园的一家餐厅，“我是小仙子”机器人头部戴着一个花环，从这款机器人下方的连线连接至一个数米远的黑色帷帘，在那里工作人员屈膝正在通过计算机程序控制这个机器人。

日本在当前世界上拥有最先进的机器人制造技术，并且日本政府积极支持未来的机器人技术的快速发展。适用于工厂的工业模式是机器人设计主流，但近期日本公司努力将机器人成为人们生活的一部分。

在此之前，日本本田公司制造了一款儿童外形行走机器人，其它公司设计的机器人可为老年人提供生活帮助，或者具有打棒球的功能，这些公司的目标是“接触人类的核心生活”。除此之外，他们还设计一些体形庞大的恐龙机器人用于展览，以及栩栩如生的仿生机器人可以微笑和发出笑声。

这场独特婚礼的36岁新娘Satoko Inoue说：“这款机器人很可爱，我认为日本人都很喜欢机器人，并且将它们当成自己的朋友。那些从事机器人制造行业的人们最理解这一点，但多数人都希望机器人在生活充当服务员的角色，并没有完全地将它们当成自己的真心朋友。”

今年42岁的日本奈良科学协会机器人技术教授Satoko Inoue是此次婚礼中的新郎，他说：“这款机器人在自我表达方面显得非常好，如果它能更加智能化一些，那将会更好。”

据悉，“我是小仙子”机器人售价68000美元，现已销售至新加坡、美国和日本市场。制造商女发言人Kayako Kido介绍，这款机器人的手臂可以弯曲18度，可执行预编程的动作和语音。（中文报道来自腾讯网）

【小编注】 这款机器人的英文名为“i-Fairy”，现有译法“我是小仙子”、“爱精灵”等，暂无官方译法。

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