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Your robot is not complete until you've clothed him

Kibiro tours the showroom at Canon Plaza S in Tokyo's Minato Ward.

TOKYO -- A support site meant to help customers put together robot kits has morphed into a social network of sorts. But instead of posting selfies, the site's users are posting pictures of their dressed-up robots.

A 55-year-old nurse who lives in Osaka, western Japan, began dressing his Robi in October. "Because it took me so long to complete him, I started to feel like it is my child," he said, "and I could not help dressing him."

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