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Sensory overload: Japan's Robot Restaurant (pictures)

Deep in Tokyo's Shinjuku district is a place of wonder and technology, an explosive spectacle of robots, glitz and lasers: the Robot Restaurant.

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In the waiting room

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Waiting room entertainment

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The show begins

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On the show floor

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Shark eats alien

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Lasers!

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Of course there's a tank

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Robo-boogie

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Group shot

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Roboko on the floor

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Roboko in detail

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