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Once again, the Japanese have excelled themselves in weirdness by creating a human looking robot that can sing so adorably called the Yamaha HRP-4C. By human looking I mean kind of like the puppets in Lazy Town human, obviously cartoony in a very manga style, but at the same time, human enough to make you think “that looks\/sounds weird.” Obviously you need sound to watch this video clip of the Yamaha HRP-4C robot.<\/p>\n

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