Robots in Our Future

Robot Could Be Models Of The Future

Edwin Kee | July 29, 2015

The world of fashion can be deemed to be a quirky one – and it is far from surprising at all to see how robots can play a role in fashion. Androids have made their way into fashion magazines as well as runways recently, where designers like Thom Browne and Rick Owens, alongside newcomers like David Koma, have touched on fembot imagery in the fall 2015 collection. Basically, models dressed in frocks that have been patterned with soldering dots and faux computer circuitry strutted their stuff.

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Of course, uncanny merging between the two might also be rather uncomfortable for some, just like how zombies have become popular culture of late. Such next generation robots are depicted by actual humans, but they will be decked out in robotic details, as well as advanced motor skills. 

<more at http://www.ubergizmo.com/2015/07/robot-could-be-models-of-the-future/; related links: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/fashion/fashion-finds-a-more-perfect-model-robots.html?_r=0 (Fashion Finds a More Perfect Model: The Robot. July 29, 2015) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8bziuSFvW4 (Fashion Robot To Hit Japan Catwalk. Uploaded March 16, 2009)>