Students at KTH, a technology university in Sweden, are building a robot of Swedish singer Robyn. Best known for her Grammy-nominated dance hit "Dancing on My Own," Robyn has several songs about robots: "Robot Boy," "Fembot" and "The Girl and The Robot."
"Once you gone tech, you ain't never going back," Robyn sings in "Fembot."
The Robyn robot is part of the Robot Project, an annual university initiative for students studying mechatronics. The students this year wanted to pay tribute to the 34-year-old pop star by crafting a robot that can talk, dance and sing.
Although the students won't finish the robot until January, they let real-life Robyn meet robot Robyn to get her input before finalizing their project. Watch the video, above, for more.
"The main goal for this project is for Robyn to embrace and interact with the robot, both physically and digitally," KTH said in a blog post. "But there is a secondary goal -- to honor everyone who [chooses] to go their own way and has a desire to push our development forward. Because without them, we would be stuck in a much less pleasant time."
This is an early sketch, from April, of how the students envisioned the robot to look:
And here's real-life Robyn meeting robot Robyn earlier this month:
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