In canada, businesses have to hire actors to play the role of fem-bots (not to be confused with the Toronto band of the same name).

However, in Japan, they apparently build their own actual fembots to shill products.

Kokoro, a Sanrio Group company specializing in the design and manufacture of robots, unveiled its new Actroid DER2 feminine guide robot at Sanrio headquarters in Tokyo on October 4. The smoothness of her movement has been improved, making it now even more likely for the uninitiated to confuse her with an actual human being. Actroid’s limbs, torso and facial expressions are controlled by a system of actuators powered by pneumatic pressure. Once programmed, she is able to choreograph her motions and gestures with her voice.

I dunno what to think about that. Should we be thankful that machines will save actors from the tedium of pretending to be robots spouting marketing jargon? or should we be distraught that technology threatens to rob poor actors of their jobs?