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Universe Within - Tokyo

2015 3 min
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As Yoko loses control of her body to Lou Gerrig's Disease, she prepares for her future by learning to operate (through eyeblinking) a "proxy" robot that goes out into the world for her, when she can no longer leave her Tokyo apartment.

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Universe Within - Tokyo

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As Yoko loses control of her body to Lou Gerrig's Disease, she prepares for her future by learning to operate (through eyeblinking) a "proxy" robot that goes out into the world for her, when she can no longer leave her Tokyo apartment.
Health and Medicine Architecture Urbanism All subjects
  • director
    Katerina Cizek
  • producer
    David Oppenheim
  • senior producer
    Gerry Flahive

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