All those tall pretties, don’t be sad. You’ll still have some print work — maybe. It’s sad to see that we may never see another human being strutting their stuff on the catwalk during fashion week in New York City. Why bother?

It’s a venture for many worth looking into for one reason: money. Do you have any idea how much models get paid just for walking a runway? For wearing clothes? Let’s just say that a supermodel can live off of it pretty stress free. But thanks to technology, it’s slowly becoming a dying race, this supermodel race.

 

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Enter: the realm of robotics.

Just two years ago, a scientist by the name of Masayoshi Kataoka invented a novel creation: the automated catwalk model. Yes, a robot. Take a look at sorc.org and see for yourself!

Now you’re probably laughing right now: imagine a walking robot wearing fashion clothes on the runway. Ideal?

The fact was that this 158-centimeter-tall, outlandishly designed automaton hardly impressed the masses because of one important reason: the robot didn’t act human enough. Mostly all it did was stomp around like a walking toaster and ‘pose’ in a way that a model should, only this walking toaster wasn’t a human model as in this photo. It was almost a mockery.

For that reason, the job security of the supermodel remains safe. But for how long?

Technology is rapidly evolving — almost on a daily basis. How long will it take before the runway crawls with walking robots wearing Gucci and Ralph Lauren? Modeling agencies better keep tabs on the times — for the future is coming.