Robot pops into studio for acting debut
Sony Corp.'s toddler-shaped robot waddled into a Tokyo recording studio Thursday to dub a voice part for a popular television cartoon show, where the talking, dancing machine makes a cameo appearance.
Surrounded by a pack of photographers, the 58-centimer-tall (23-inch-tall) silver robot with glowing eyes walked slowly up to a microphone, stopped, waved and muttered, "All this attention is making me nervous."
Sony's humanoid robot, called Qrio, uses software that changes text into an electronic voice. It took up its new challenge with gusto, delivering a couple of lines for an episode of "Astro Boy," a weekly TV show from Sony Pictures Entertainment, set to start airing in the United States Saturday.
In one scene, an animation version of Qrio tells a story to a group of children sitting under a tree.
