Yamaha's singing robot quietly trolls, slyly frightens at CEATEC (video)
By Darren Murph 
posted Oct 8th 2009 3:19AM
posted Oct 8th 2009 3:19AM
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I love asian robots
She's got boobs!
I was thinking the same thing, why aren't other countries developing humanoid robots? Will Astroboy come from Japan as predicted by Osamu Tezuka??
Me too, but will she nag like my girlfriend? *dodges pillow as his girlfriend reads this*
The future live talking sex doll. LOL "oh baby you so big. me love you long time." LOL
if i was not afraid of electric shock i may uncover them
At first glance, it looked real.
I'm going to have nightmares.
...she was real, my friend.
i always thought Robots are there to do stuff we are to lazy to do.. but now they start taking away all the fun :( this is madness
THIS IS SPA...ahem...
Robots are made because we're not allowed to make clones, at least not yet.
By the way, why can't we make human clones for organ transplantation and guinea pigs for medicine? Robots won't do. They cost billions each and are not affected by medicine...
THIS IS SPA!
*gives backrub*
Diamonds!
Nice tahtahs..
those are definitely fake.
Dare you to ask her if they're real.
I wouldn't if I were you. She looks like she slaps pretty hard.
"I wouldn't if I were you. She looks like she slaps pretty hard." - They already have a japanese fembot for that. She gets groped at 3:50 LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yomx7bXMf2U
You say you wanna get slapped for groping? You need Aiko fembot, she do more then slap you! Aiko, give me your arm. Aiko, relax your arm. Aiko, close your hand. Aiko move your arm up and down... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yomx7bXMf2U
because Yamaha's Vocaloid synth wasn't robotic enough... I guess this completes the picture
Agreed!
Man why do we need real singers then?
For the drama.
Only a matter of time till lonely japanese men are buying fembots from a vending machine at the train station...
Not until those robots can do jobs for those dirty-old-man...
"japanese"? I'm afraid that word was unnecessary. Trust me, it won't take long for those vending machines to move out of Japan and dominate the whole world xD
I predict this will happen sometime in 2014 shortly after Yamaha merges with Japan's Orient Industries and they produce their first robotic Candy Girl, the CG1000X dual purpose robotic maid and full function love doll.
YAMAHA....MUST....MERGE....WITH....ORIENT....INDUSTRY.... :) http://www.orient-doll.com/ (nsfw)
Did someone just whisper "uncanny valley"?
No - I think it is just the sound of the wind blowing against the windows... in an empty future devoid of human life, filled with the triumphal song of the robots.
technosexuality
I was wondering if the voice was coming out from her mouth, or she was just having the mechanical mouth moving to pretend singing...
yeah it would have been much more impressive if she had a mechanical diaphragm.
Prerecorded "vocal cord" and movement of mouth and "tongue" to make the sounds of singing.
Not just a prerecording.
The woman in the right of the poster frame looks just like Phyllis from The Office...
(n.b. may not be a woman..)
Hatsune Miku!
I called and orderd one,
It comes with a body guard feature, if some one tries to stick you up she loads up Fatman scoop with 10 speakers at full blast.
RUN
no A.I not real
You want robots to learn how to use weapons and share the knowledge instantly?
Or you want them to want to conquer the world?
I wonder if this come in an Ashley Simpson flavor...
You know, this kind of reminds of the old "Robot World" attraction in Wisconsin Dells from the 80's. Most of the "robots" were about as much robot as Tom Servo or Crow from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
What is with the ads goog is forcing us to listen to at the end of these clips. Is this a new feature of youtube? If so it sucks.
Does it make an 'ooh face' yet? And where's the other half? That's the funnest part. I think they got things all wrong over there.
So what's so special about this? It's an android "singing" a pre-recorded song.
Showbiz Pizza 2009.
Haha, perfect comment. I think the talking animals actually worked better. With a realistic face, it is easy to see how fake the simple mouth movements look.
Prerecorded "vocal cord" and movement of mouth and "tongue" to make the sounds of singing.
Not just a prerecording.
I don't what is creepier. The singing robot, or that it has telekinesis and can play piano while it sings.
Fuck that! I'll be impressed when she sings and dances satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction, satisfaction ,satisfaction, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push, push,. Ok ok so i got a lil carried away... :)
I can't wait 'til this thing gets on American Idol.
!Noah!
next up, chuck-e-cheese !