Man Builds And Marries Robot Wife

A 31-year-old software engineer in China marries a robot he built in an informal ceremony.

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00:00 31-year-old software engineer in China was tired of feeling the pressure to get

00:03 married, so he built his own robot bride. In China, men outnumber the women. For

00:08 every hundred or so women in China, there are a hundred and thirteen men. Naturally

00:12 for me, that would be awesome, but it makes dating for men pretty difficult.

00:15 And after constant pressure from his family to find a wife, Jang built a robot

00:19 just to shut them up. The blushing bride-bot is named Ying Ying. She's

00:24 pretty, but she's no Scarlett Johansson. The robot Scarlett Johansson, I mean. And

00:28 as you can imagine, this isn't the first time that people have fallen in love

00:31 with robots. I mean, we know about the movies Her and Ex Machina, but I mean in

00:36 real life. A woman in France who identifies as a robosexual is 3D

00:40 printing her own robot husband, while another inventor, LeTron, spent Christmas

00:44 with his robot companion, Ico. While some may find this wedding a bit weird, others

00:48 are more forward-thinking. Author David Levy predicts that human-robot

00:52 marriages will be legal by 2050. My boyfriend has two modes, off and vibrate.

00:57 Too early? Currently, Ying Ying can only say a few words and recognize a few

01:01 Chinese symbols, but she's already employed at her husband's startup as a

01:05 spokesmodel. Great, not only taking my men, but also taking my jobs, b*tch.

01:09 Zang also plans to upgrade Ying Ying to do household chores, because of course he

01:13 does. So what do you think about matrimony between a human and a machine?

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