# Rise of the Machines: Robot Actors Take the Stage

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**Created:** [November 28, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-robot-actors-take-the-stage/474754 "2008-11-28T02:42:27Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 28, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rise-of-the-machines-robot-actors-take-the-stage/474754/1 "2008-11-28T02:42:27Z")

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[Keanu Reeves reported to be distraught at the loss of potential future earnings.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7749932.stm)

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> First there were dancing robots, then house-sitting robots and now a new breed of acting robots is making its big debut on the Japanese stage.
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> The play, which had its premiere at Osaka University, is one of Japan’s first robot-human theatre productions.
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> The machines were specially programmed to speak lines with human actors and move around the stage with them.
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> Playwright Oriza Hirata says the work raises questions about the relationship between humanity and technology.
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> The play, called Hataraku Watashi (I, Worker), is set in the near future.

They should have named the robot Calculon, and called the play _All My Circuits_.