Development of an android for singing with facial expression

This paper presents the hardware mechanism and software architecture of a singer robot system called EveR-2. EveR-2 is an android robot platform has human-like appearance and shows its emotion with facial expression and gestures. The skin of the head, arms, hands and legs is made of silicon jelly to give human-like texture. EveR-2 has sixty-two degrees of freedom in the head, neck, arms, hands, torso, and legs. It sings a song by reading a music score with lip synchronization. EveR-2 is the first android that made her debut and a music video.

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