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So you think you can dansu?

Posted on 14 February 2010 by admin

At least that’s what I thought after I finished reading this tweet post by one of prominent American “celebrity”, Tony Dyson (the man who invented R2D2).

Robots are showing off their best dance groves they’ve ever done in front of the live audience!! Apparently, it’s part of Sony’s showcase to inform the public how incredibly “talented” robots can be if you train them to dance just like back-up Britney dancers would do. ^^

Have a look!

Source: TonyDyson.com, Youtube.com

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Taiwan Transformers

Posted on 27 January 2010 by admin

Was casually browsing online the other day after returning from work.

And I encountered this very awesome video clip and had to post it on my Facebook page!!

You couldn’t believe what I’m seeing here! It’s Taiwan’s very own Transformers 1/1 scale model of Optimus Prime!

Well sort of.

News said that a Taiwan local gardener built this giant (somewhat) replica of Optimus Prime model, using all the spare parts of the brake discs and other auto parts as a special present for his 10 year old son. Awww… How incredibly sweet of him! ^^

And to show he meant it with all his heart and soul, he’s spent two weeks to construct a 430 cm tall and about 500 kgs of weight as prove of his dedication for making a wonderful gift for his soul.

Man. What a swell kind of guy! That clearly shows his passion and love for this little big ‘project’ of his. ^^

Source: Youtube.com

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Robot Model that can cosplay and sing?

Posted on 21 January 2010 by admin

Saw this ANN.com post some months ago. And I thought I love to share this piece with everyone.

Japan’s latest wacky robot invention that not only can speak and move recently, but can also – I couldn’t believe it when I first saw this – cosplay and sing as well!!

The new HRP-4C robot model was dressed up as this anime character, known as Miku Hatsune, whose apparently a very popular anime character that seems to be taken a widespread appeal among the Japanese media enthusiasts and raise the industry watchdogs for quite some time.

Never heard much about her.  However, according to Wikipedia, she’s a ‘product’ made by music instrument company, Yamaha, that produces synthetic music and singing of various popular songs by actually matching the pitch and vocal range of the actual singers when she  started to open her mouth to sing.  Really impressed.

Check out some of 80’s popular songs sang by her.

Miku Hatsune singing “Heaven is a place on earth” by Belinda Carlise in 1987

Here’s the original version…..

Miku Hatsune singing “Hard to say sorry” by Chicago

And the original video….

^^

Source: ANN.com, Youtube.com, Wikipedia.org

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