Mouth Robot Croaks a Nursery Rhyme, Provokes Nightmares

Several years ago, researchers in (you guessed it) Japan put together a reasonable facsimile of the human vocal apparatus in an attempt to help hearing-impairing people learn to better modulate their voices. The details of how this process works can be perused here, but we'd just like to treat you to a trailer of this creepy little puppy in action, moaning the nursery rhyme "Kagome, Kagome," before some major film studio options it for a B-grade horror flick. Titles, anyone? http://youtu.be/Bht96voReEo (via PopSci)