Tokyo students put a Melody kigurumi on a robot and it's adorably alive
tkasasagi · x · 2026-09-05
A student project from the University of Tokyo's Chaos Camp combines robotics (UTokyo) with kigurumi craft (Tokyo University of the Arts) to build "cute robots" — dressing small robots in character-sized mascot suits so cartoon characters appear at their true scale. A working My Melody prototype has been demoed on video.
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