Jimmy Fallon’s duet with Sophia the robot is as sweet as it is unsettling

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One of the most tender, or creepy duets ever performed on The Tonight Show features a robot.

Hampton Robotics’ famous humanoid robot, Sophia, the first citizen robot in the world, joined Jimmy Fallon for a song on Wednesday night.

After introducing her robot sister, the forthcoming Little Sophia, Sophia used her AI voice to sing a rather lovely, if not undeniably unsettling rendition of A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera’s “Say Something,” with Fallon.

Sophia appears around the 4:30 mark, after a slew of other robots from around the globe, including MIT’s Mini Cheetah, a ‘blind’ robot dog great for hunting you on a moonless night, and Tomatan, a wearable tomato-feeding robot. Read more…

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