Singing Hatsune Miku robot at CEATEC
ASCII.jp reports that the Yamaha booth at CEATEC Japan 2009 has the HRP-4C created by National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology dressed up as Hatsune Miku and singing songs such as supercell’s Melt.
A youtube video of the robot singing can be viewed here.
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October 6th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Nice to see the designers still have their heads in the uncanny valley…
October 6th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Creeps me out.
October 6th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Miku-robo looks a little chubby in the cheeks.
October 6th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
She (it) wants my dick.
October 6th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
That’s actually one of the scariest things I’ve ever seen…
October 6th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Creeeeepy!
October 6th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Impressive, but kinda creepy too! I think it’s because I expect an anime Miku?
October 6th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
2D Miku Forever!!!
October 6th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
This reminds me of the Stargazer video… Wonder if I can steal it?
October 7th, 2009 at 1:57 am
3D Pig disgusting!
October 7th, 2009 at 3:55 am
I’m terribly sorry, but I have no interest in anything outside of 2D.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:08 am
They need to try a little harder if they really do plan to make women obsolete.
October 7th, 2009 at 4:08 am
maybe they should stick to anime style instead of realistic style…
October 7th, 2009 at 4:47 am
I find it pretty stupid and a tremendous waste of resources to research in this area. There won’t be any useful Cyborgs without huge improvements in the AI research, however those fags waste their time on the development of silly body frames and their weak implementation into useless pseudo cyborg walking garbage.
What a silly media show, all they have shown to me is their utter desperation that forced them into coming up with something to not lose their streams of funding.
Cyborg and AI research is still only sci-fi material and we won’t see any improvents in this area for many years.
October 7th, 2009 at 5:58 am
Yes, I agree. Until they successfully implement perfect hip gyration movement in robots, research in this area is practically going nowhere. Also, further research must be done on viable lubricant materials and the implementation of a proper robotic tongue.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:25 am
I think it would actually be more feasible to convert people into 2D representations rather than make 3D manifestations of non-humans. Think of that latest Bruce Willis movie ‘Surrogates’. A 2D avatar of myself projected into virtual animespace having sex hentai-style with other 2D characters is probably far more doable (and fappable imho), if it weren’t for the fact that the non-anime-loving mainstream seems to look down on 2D in favor of 3D despite all the pathetic attempts made to overcome the uncanny valley.
October 7th, 2009 at 9:05 am
What the hell? That hardly looks real and sure as hell doesn’t look like Miku. I mean come on, there’s absolutely no resemblance other than the clothing. I dare even say it’s ugly. How much time did they spend on that head anyway?
October 7th, 2009 at 11:04 am
> How much time did they spend on that head anyway?
Probably too much time — enough to deform the cheeks to be exact.
October 7th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
Pick one of the two:
Kigurumi Miku
Yamaha Miku
“Neither” is not an option.
October 7th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Kigurumi Miku.
October 7th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
If it could beat back Skynet with its song…
October 11th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Fail…
October 16th, 2009 at 6:29 am
Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?
February 16th, 2010 at 12:03 pm
I like the idea of a robot Vocaloid….I can’t wait till the make it more and more human!
April 26th, 2010 at 1:10 pm
It is a actroid and it is and awsome! I want it And I agree Lady Otaku! Oh and to the perv. that said, “She (it) wants my dick” YOU ARE SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! S-I-C-K SICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!