The wedding took place at a restaurant in Hibiya Park in central Tokyo, where the I-Fairy wore a wreath of flowers and directed a rooftop ceremony. Wires led out from beneath it to a black curtain a few feet away, where a man crouched and clicked commands into a computer。

　　这场婚礼在东京中部日比谷公园的一家餐厅的屋顶上举行。“爱精灵”头戴花环，帮助新人完成了仪式。距机器人几英尺远处有一个黑帘子，帘子后面是一台与机器人身体相连的电脑，有人在此通过电脑发布指令。

　　Japan has one of the most advanced robotics industries in the world, with the government actively supporting the field for future growth. Industrial models in factories are now standard, but recently Japanese companies are making a push to inject robots into everyday life。

　　由于政府大力支持该领域以应对未来发展，日本的机器人产业一直处于世界领先水平。应用于工厂的工业机器人目前已经非常规范，而最近日本公司正在推进机器人在日常生活中的使用。

　　Honda makes a walking child-shaped robot, and other firms have developed them to entertain the elderly or play baseball. Kokoro, whose corporate goal is to "touch the hearts of the people," also makes giant dinosaur robots for exhibitions and lifelike androidmodels that can smile and laugh. The company is a subsidiaryof Sanrio Co., which owns the rights to Hello Kitty and other Japanese characters。

　　本田公司开发了一种可以行走的儿童型机器人，其它公司还开发出了帮老年人解闷和会打棒球的机器人。以“触动人心”为宗旨的Kokoro公司曾研制出供展览的大型恐龙机器人，以及会微笑和大笑的仿真机器人。Kokoro公司隶属于三丽鸥公司，该公司旗下有Hello Kitty和其它一些日本卡通人物形象等文化品牌。