China’s Shanghai Shenqing Industry (SSI) unveils Yangyang, created in a collaborative effort with professor Hiroshi Ishiguro from Osaka University.
“Ishiguro recently told IBTimes UK in Singapore that he believes robots will one day replace pop stars and Hollywood actors.
There are many possibilities, for example an idol singer [pop star]. An android robot is more beautiful, probably, and they never get tired and can keep singing songs forever, he said.”
Yangyang was modeled after Song Yang, a Chinese researcher working with SSI, and the robot features skin made from a special type of silica gel to replicate the texture of human skin.
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