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A Chinese engineer made headlines last week after finding true love in marrying a robot he constructed and programmed himself. Among the benefits cited by 31-year-old Zheng Jiajia are that he won’t have a mother in law, he won’t have to save up to buy a house and as he gets older, and his wife will stay as pretty as the day they first met.

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