Sadly, our beloved Adam B. has moved on to other illustrious career goals, but I hope to keep his spirit alive with, well, obviously, strange robot posts. It wasn’t hard to find a strange robot story for you, my dear speech-heads. Last week, an I-Fairy robot wed a couple in Tokyo.
Kokoro, the company best known for populating the world with Hello Kitty paraphernalia, created the I-Fairy for all your robot needs–whether to officiate your wedding or lead your next meeting. At $70,000 US dollars, what are you waiting for? I-Fairy stands at four feet tall (not much shorter than yours truly) and according to the Kokoro website, she has an “attention-grabbing cute design with a strong presence!” I’m still not sure, however, how the I-Fairy looks like fairy–she doesn’t have wings or pixie dust (not included I guess), but judge for yourself .
Besides cuteness, what I-fairy does possess is a Text to Speech (TTS) capability, so one can input any written text and the robot will read it aloud. I-Fairy can also interpret a human narrator’s speech or use a pre-recorded voice.
