Japanese researchers have showed off a robot that will soon strut its stuff down a Tokyo catwalk.
The girlie-faced humanoid with slightly oversized eyes, a tiny nose and a shoulder length hair boasts 42 motion motors programmed to mimic the movements of flesh-and-blood fashion models.
"Hello everybody, I am cybernetic human HRP-4C," the futuristic fashionista said, opening its media premiere at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology outside Tokyo.
The fashion-bot is 158 centimetres tall, the average height of Japanese women aged 19 to 29, but weighs in at a waif-like 43 kilograms, including batteries.
She has a manga-inspired human face but a silver metallic body.
HRP-4C will debut on March 23 during the Tokyo fashion show; she will have to appear by herself rather than alongside human models due to health and safety issues.
Developed for the entertainment industry the bot is currently not for sale. Her robotic framework, without a face will be sold for about $200,000. The technology to program the bot will be made available to the public so that others can develop actions, moves, and expressions on their own.
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