July 11, 2008

Robotic Middle Manager Haunts Australia

This video is downright eerie. Performance artist Momoyo Torimitsu let her robotic Middle Manager loose on a busy Australian intersection. According to the artist, "The battery-powered robot is supposed to symbolize the Asian economic crash and Japan's rigid 'salaryman' culture."

Yeah. We wonder why she didn't let it loose in Toyko.

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Posted by Sheila Franklin at July 11, 2008 3:44 PM

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