Humanoid robot officiates human wedding

The groom is a robotics professor. The bride is an employee at Sanrio's humanoid robot division, Kokoro. To them it wasn't that strange, then, to have a wide-eyed humanoid robot with a sweet feminine voice officiate their wedding.

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Lisa Katayama

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