Farewell QRIO

Quartet of Qrio/SDR4X robots by Sony, now discontinued. Translation from YouTube user chefsti

[Japanese]
lalalalalalalalalalalalala
kimi to issho ni aruite yukitai
kimi no egao ga suki dakara
(sotto yasashiku)
suki dakara
(sotto dakishimete)
ureshii yo
(motto yasashiku)
yasashiku sotto dakishimete

[English]
I want to walk with you
Because I love your smile
(gently, Softly)
Because I love you
(Hold me softly)
I feel Happy
(More Gently)
Hold me softly, Gently

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Sony
• QRIO
• robot
• singing

[mangakid19]

Well, those are fictional, and they are okay with fictional animals, but if they were to be made into real creatures, people would freak out. Hollywood is a source of the paranoia, I agree, but it isn't the only source. Why is this paranoia around? If people even knew how robots work, they would know that they couldn't kill unless a human programmer wanted them to. I firmly believe in the thought of really knowing about it before you go against it.

[robologist]

That's great that you have that firm belief. I hope that you use it to investigate what religious people really do believe, before "going against" them with negative comments. I've actually never heard any hard statements for or against robotics from the religious speakers I've heard. Perhaps the religious could see building robots as imitating a Creator, in much the same way that Creator had made them.

[mangakid19]

I didn't think that. people keep starting up with that crap that robots will kill us all in the future. I also think (although unproven) that these people are highly religious and don't wan't us to create anything "in His image". They don't wan't any "aliens" that look like humans, they don't want half-human, half-animals that look like people because of this issue that only humans were created "in his image".

[robologist]

Really? Highly religious people don't want any half-human half-animals? Perhaps looking at "The Chronicles of Narnia" by CS Lewis might serve as contrary evidence. I believe Hollywood would be a better source of the "robots will kill us" myth. Think "Terminator", "Eve of Destruction" etc.

[itzjesusbxtch]

sony's wack why kill one of the most advanced robots there is?

[NoOdL3z21]

i love you too my little companion. goodbye buddy <:*(

[aiboluver]

@luther349 thats too bad. :c

I wanted to get the 210 AIBO so bad TT.TT

[aiboluver]

@over18bum Im afraid its the same thing thy did with AIBO's... too expensive T.T

[andygoespublic]

One of the most beautiful and heart-breaking performances ever! Thanks so much for sharing!

[erailea]

@NikkoCharger - a 3 mil loss is nothing for a company that large. A small hit, if as much. Robotics in general is hyper expensive however, especially when you are trying to keep up with the competition. Still, I wish they hadn't canceled him. People rave about Asimo but I think Qrio was always more advanced as it wasn't remote controlled and actually moved with great fluidity by the time it was disconnected. Asimo never struck me as spectacular, counter to Qrio whom I thought was fantastic

[aiboluver]

I almost cried... They never wanted to die!!! I wish Aibo did this on there last day on Earth... I MISS U QRIO!! :(

[aiboluver]

@gaetano22 You could get them on Ebay i think :D

[aiboluver]

@zerodevice That is why they also canceled my dream robot, Aibo =(

[aiboluver]

Vocaloid robots???

[cbmuzik]

Justin Beiber wants these robots dead.