The Divabot, as she's being called, chirps the lyrics to her song, works the crowd, and shakes her stuff in sync with her back-up dancers. It's pretty amazing. Even by human standards, her dancing is not too bad. Her singing is actually decent, if you played someone this song and a Ke$ha song and asked which one was sung by a robot...

Divabot is being developed at Japan's Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. She uses special software to precisely mimic a human singer's head movements and facial features and synthesizes notes with Yamaha's Vocaloid software. Masataka Goto, head of the Institute's interactive media group, hopes that someday the robots will be used by the entertainment industry. From the looks of things, that's not too far off. Scary. 

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