Ride Miku Ride!

30.10.2008 by Eva

As the following video suggests, have we all seen the Murata Boy commercial? Murata was a bicycling robot developed by a company of the same name about 2 years ago. He was very very cool in that he both balanced and pedaled a bicycle, utilizing a veritable rainbow of technologies. The "was" part comes in earlier this year when his younger cousin did the same thing on a unicycle; he is still very cool nonetheless.

In the commercials which aired on Japanese TV around December of 2006, we see Murata Boy at work. But suppose you wanted to build your own future cyclist? Someone did exactly that, choosing Vocaloid Hatsune Miku as the pilot and building the whole thing from scratch. As comedic distraction, we can see some of the failed attempts - or, better yet, the decision to go from high tech to feasible tech, as the former was "impossible."

The finished product, including the paper hair and origami skirt, is simply awesome.