Hajime Sorayama

Hajime Sorayama (born 1947) is a Japanese artist known for his super-realistic airbrush pin-ups and gynoids (female robots), and the artificial intelligence robot dog AIBO that he designed for Sony. Sorayama's rise to fame started with his surfing organic robotic form in 1978 and in particular in the mid-1980s when he published a series of organic metal clad female forms from which the art establishment coined the phrase "Sexy Robots" [1]. By the early 1990s the artist's futuristic and Shunga style works had been published in Penthouse, Playboy, a variety of books and movies. At the start of 2000's first decade Sorayama had received the highest design award that may be conferred by Japan and his organic metallic form of the first artificial intelligent pet Sony's AIBO was part of the permanent collections of MOMA and the Smithsonian Institute museums.