The X-rated "Sexpo" trade event which took place in Melbourne, Australia, last week featured everything from an imposing 66-foot "Love Rocket" ride and a "Gerbil Sex Train" to live appearances from a variety of adult industry names (who, upstanding citizens that we are, we've naturally never heard of). One of the most bizarre sights, however, was surely a computer-controlled stripper robot constructed out of mannequin parts and boasting a CCTV camera for a head. Created by British artist Giles Walker, it was yet another convergence point between the adult and tech worlds -- and one which cost $3,100 to hire for the event. "I started as a scrap artist building sculptures from what could be found in the scrap yards, and therefore was familiar with the parts available from scrapped cars," Walker told Digital Trends. "In the case of these robots, I used windscreen wiper motors to move the body parts. These motors turn on and off with a simple programmable PCB. The figures consist of a metal armature, clad in plastic body parts cut from old mannequins and resprayed."

In the video above I talk about why Episode 9 of Westworld turned out to be one of my favorite episodes of the series so far, because of these fantastic performances. It really epitomizes why this series is so different from any other series, because these actors are so great and so fantastic. Yes, Westworld is very much based on that mystery, that wondering what will happen next, that plot twist, but not more so than the amazing performances that we're seeing from Jeffrey Wright playing Bernard, and Anthony Hopkins as Ford. Just watching these two actors go at it and perform and really wrestle with such internal conflict as they're thinking about what it means to be human, as they're thinking about the nature of reality and why things are important to us and how memory affects us and then steers us moving forward and sometimes holds us back. Watching Jeffrey Wright struggle with these concepts in the series has been remarkable, more so than any plot twists having to do with Bernard.