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No./ 11 The first robot movie star is ready for action

WE’VE ALL SEEN movies with robotic performances. Now here’s one where that’s deliberate. Ignoring the dark warnings of the series, a new film, simply titled , will star ‘Erica’, a humanoid robot with an AI brain, in what is believed to be a milestone for the technology. It’s a logical step, insists theused AI to de-age actors. The difference is we actually use a robot.”

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