Humanoid robots Thomas and Janet have kissed before, but now their tentative explorations of robot love have surfaced on Youtube. See their theatrical love in a December 2008 production of Phantom of the Opera in Taiwan.
(Robots kiss in Phantom of the Opera in Taiwan)
I'm trying to identify the first scene in which robots kiss in fiction. I think that there is a scene in Manly Wade Wellman's 1938 story The Robot and the Lady, but I have to check it the magazine.
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