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Robotic bunraku puppets brought to life

I stumbled across this late last week. The National Science Museum in Tokyo made some robotic bunraku puppets. By adding pneumatics, the arms, heads and other body parts move - not so realistically, but still it’s quite impressive. The full details are given here, with more pictures: I’m including the video below. (Sadly, a quick browse/search of the museum’s website offers up no useful info - the exhibition apparently ran until early this year)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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