Yamaha's HRP-4C adds "dancer" to her resume as she joins four human performers for a Tokyo performance called "Dance Robot LIVE! - HRP-4C Cybernetic Human." Leslie Katz led a team that explored the ...

March 23: HRP-4C walks and greets people on the catwalk during a fashion show at Japan Fashion Week in Tokyo. March 16: The HRP-4C robot is unveiled at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial ...

TSUKUBA, Japan – A new walking, talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and has trimmed down to 43 kilograms (95 pounds) to make a debut at a fashion show. But it still hasn't even ...

TSUKUBA, Japan -- A new walking, talking robot from Japan has a female face that can smile and has trimmed down to 43 kilograms (95 pounds) to make a debut at a fashion show. But it still hasn't ...

Most robots that are labeled “humanoids” still have a common problem: they can only walk in a slow, mechanical and chopping motion. Even HRP-4C, in my opinion the most realistic humanoid ever created, ...

From Japan comes another scary-looking robot, this one is called the HRP-4C Fashion Model Robot. The HRP-4C Fashion Robot stands 5 feet tall, not exactly the size of your average fashion model, and it ...

Visitors to the recent Digital Content Expo in Tokyo got to see one of the more unusual performances of their lives: a robotic woman dancing and singing with her human counterparts to a choreographed ...

Meet HRP-4C. HRP-4C, a robot designed to resemble a 20-something Japanese woman, has been taught by her creators, Kawada and AIST, how to dance, sing and strut. HRP-4C performed live with a human ...

We know her as a pretty creepy cyber-model, a bridezilla, and a singer. And now cybernetic human robot HRP-4C, brain child of Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology ...

The HRP-4C robot was not programmed to please families like Asimo. Nor will she save/destroy humanity like a Terminator. Rather, she’s taking the fashion world by storm as Tokyo’s next top model.

March 19, 2009 Fashion modeling could one day be dominated by identical, fake-looking, soulless robots thanks to Japanese researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...

Japan is still upgrading its HRP series of humanoid servants. The latest prototype, HRP-4, can stand on one leg, strike a pose, and generally look cool. Tim Hornyak Crave freelancer Tim Hornyak is the ...