Karaoke Robot Mouth is One Weird Invention

Ah, the Japanese. They invent such great, practical items, mixed with such useless, bizarro items. The latest in the long line of items (guess from which list) is the singing robot orifice mouth, which might be used for perverted purposes. CNET reports that at Robotech 2011 in Tokyo, Hideyuki Sawada displayed his singing robot mouth. The mouth attempts to sing by replicating the human voice in electromechanical ways.

“Sawada’s mouth has been around for years, but he and his colleagues have improved it–mechanically, that is. It’s still a lousy singer. The mouth has an air compressor that acts as lungs and a silicone tongue and resonance tube that’s shaped by eight servomotors to make different sounds. It works in a feedback loop, listening to its horrific ululations via microphone, analyzing its output compared to a target sound, and correcting itself.”

If you don’t have young children or that perverted weird uncle looking over your shoulder, check out the video below.

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