Creepy robotic heads serenade your wallet from deep inside the uncanny valley

No, it's not the Boyz II Men reunion tour, these are three other singing robots manufactured into a performing trio. The animatronic heads from artist Nathaniel Mellor are part of a $75,000 art piece on sale at Art Basel Miami Beach 2009. The artificial faces are controlled by servos which in turn are controlled by a computer. The uncontrolled fear you'll feel when watching the video is, however, completely natural.

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 4th 2009 9:18AM]

why, oh why, must they sing about freedom?! It doubles the creepiness

[slicerd Posted Dec 4th 2009 9:26AM]

WTF 75k for that! I would rather have these guys http://www.youtube.com/user/RewindShowBob and the guy would build them for you for way less than 75k

[ronlap Posted Dec 4th 2009 10:29AM]

And why is this any stranger than Disney's audio animatronics?

[Dignan17 Posted Dec 4th 2009 10:35AM]

Wasn't very creepy to me. Only a little. Probably because whoever put it together doesn't appear to have done a very good job. The mouths don't really move that much, and were almost never in sync with the words. And the voices they used just sounded terrible, not scary.

FAIL.

[CharonSin Posted Dec 4th 2009 10:59AM]

Do you get tech support with that? Something wrong with having to fix or patch a piece of art you buy.

[Gatzy118 Posted Dec 4th 2009 11:40AM]

These heads have been in London's Tate Britain for a long time.................but still very creepy!

[blueeyesm Posted Dec 4th 2009 1:02PM]

WHERE'S YOUR HEAD AT??

Drop it

Okay are you ready? I'm ready! Yeaaah!!!

[shul Posted Dec 4th 2009 2:33PM]

sometime in the future all of humanity will suffer because of this clip, I promise you ...

I for one, welcome our new robot overlords, whenever they'll come..

[GravityDesignStudios Posted Dec 4th 2009 3:37PM]

That middle one is especially creepy with that wonky eye that keeps crossing.

[MichaelDola Posted Dec 4th 2009 3:55PM]

So, these are man made face type robots... why do they have wall eye?

[bonaqo Posted Dec 4th 2009 7:26PM]

Another technological breakthrough to make Futurama's Head in Jars come true