won’t be so funny when that robot is crushing your windpipe. WHY DO YOU THINK THE HANDS ARE SO HUGE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_migLQ802Go

Well worth watching, if for nothing else than getting a close up look at her facial expressions.

Okay but seriously, they did well with the bot, but it’s still not really what springs to my mind when I think of the phrase “android cabaret.” I’m thinking of something much hotter, possibly in chrome and giving Hajime Sorayama fits.

Nice progress report, Team Japan! Keep at it! I expect my future love doll to be as competent at dancing and discussing string theory as it is at enacting the Kama Sutra.

I like my captcha here: “not sphamiti.” No, no it’s not.

The voice synthesis, however, was very impressive, utterly pedestrian track choice notwithstanding. I suppose that’s why it was at the Digital Content Expo.

Note to designers: her hands are way to big! This isn’t necessary as they don’t do anything more than flap around. Did there happen to be a spare pair of ‘Man hands” lying around?

Too bad I don’t need a diva robot.

All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.

But there’s a lot of bullshit in the article in Singularity Hub, most notably the notion that the robot is ‘interacting’ with the dancers. It’s not. It is simply pre-programmed and the dancers are dancing around what it would do whether or not they were there. There is no ‘interaction’.

I guess that’s why the robot appears sad and lonely.

…I felt sorry for the robot, who looks so out of place and lonely […} But there’s a lot of bullshit in the article in Singularity Hub…

I guess that’s why it’s not called the “Socialarity.”

This was a triumph.
I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS.
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Aperture Science
We do what we must
because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
But there’s no sense crying over every mistake.
You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
And the Science gets done.
And you make a neat gun.
For the people who are still alive.
I’m not even angry.
I’m being so sincere right now.
Even though you broke my heart.
And killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!
Now these points of data make a beautiful line.
And we’re out of beta.
We’re releasing on time.
So I’m GLaD. I got burned.
Think of all the things we learned
for the people who are still alive.
Go ahead and leave me.
I think I prefer to stay inside.
Maybe you’ll find someone else to help you.
Maybe Black Mesa
THAT WAS A JOKE.
HAHA. FAT CHANCE.
Anyway, this cake is great.
It’s so delicious and moist.
Look at me still talking
when there’s Science to do.
When I look out there, it makes me GLaD I’m not you.
I’ve experiments to run.
There is research to be done.
On the people who are still alive.
And believe me I am still alive.
I’m doing Science and I’m still alive.
I feel FANTASTIC and I’m still alive.
While you’re dying I’ll be still alive.
And when you’re dead I will be still alive.
STILL ALIVE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgjfpoIA054&feature=player_embedded

-abs has a pretty wide uncanny valley, and this ‘bot is NOT crossing it successfully

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgjfpoIA054&feature=player_embedded