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HRP-4C Impersonates Hatsune Miku, Sings J-Pop

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 7 of October , 2009 at 1:48 am

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Hatsune Miku isn’t a real person. She’s not even a robot … She’s a computer generated persona called a Vocaloid, and she’s a Japanese pop star. Like, for real. And she’s famous enough that the HRP-4C android chick turned into a sort of reverse-avatar for her, and put on a couple performances at CEATEC in Japan, complete with an aqua wig with improbably long pigtails:

Hm. Honestly, I think I prefer the original… More emotion, less creepiness:

This music is completely computer generated, remember… And if you buy the software package, you can get the Vocaloid to sing whatever you want. Robot not included.

VIA [ Robot Watch (Translated) ]

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Category: Androids,Musical,Uncanny Valley

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Comment by Melissa

Made Wednesday, 7 of October , 2009 at 10:34 am

Reminiscent of Simone. (Which you really need to watch, if you haven’t already.)

Comment by Foreigner1

Made Friday, 9 of October , 2009 at 9:58 am

Still just pathetic to see.

…For the time being us humans won’t have to worry about the threat of possibly being replaced by robots…

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