Okay, so we know Lem covered this waaay back in 2005, but we were very excited to see Kiyomori up close and personal.

Kiyomori is made by Tmsuk, which specializes in heavy work robots and robots that perform functions unsuitable for living things. Kiyomori is Tmuk’s flagship robot, developed with the Atsuo Takanishi research lab of Waseda University (go bears!). Kiyomori was built specifically to further human/robot interaction, at least this is what they would have us believe. We believe that with that warrior stance, those gleaming red eyes, and that fine fine Samurai garb, Kiyomori is bent on assuming the position of chief human administrator, just like the original Kiyomori did. By human administrator, we mean of course, administrator of humans, not administrator who is human. Please.

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