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Robot strippers make appearance at CES

Strip club uses robots to lure CES attendees
Robot strippers make appearance at CES
Robot strippers make appearance at CES
Posted at 6:32 AM, Jan 12, 2018
and last updated 2018-01-12 08:38:20-05

On a recent evening in Las Vegas during the CES technology show, robot strippers offered a window into technology's gender fault lines.  

From a distance, the mechanical humanoids on a strip-club stage looked something like real dancers in robot drag. 

But close up, they were clearly mannequins with surveillance-camera heads and abstractly sculpted feminine chests, buttocks and backs, shimmying and thrusting their boxy plastic hips. 

On one level, it was a classic Vegas stunt for the club to cash in tech show attendees. The robots served a racy but utilitarian function by drawing gawkers to the club, much the way provocatively clad "booth babes" lure CES visitors to wares on the convention floor.