Japanese Tea Server Robot Kit

[silverneedles]

kinda in response to insanitylater's tea monkey www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBOJH0-U-K0

[chamekke]

These little tea guys are called karakuri (machines/automatons) in Japanese. They also seem to be called chadoubi ningyou (Way of Tea dolls?). There's an entire website selling them here: http://www.karakuriya/com

See the disturbing doll innard photos!



YouTube clips include this confused little fella:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okGeSZRJMt0

...and a "skeletor" server:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7YKHjz6BLw

This one has been given a tea sweet to serve, but the tatami is giving him some logistical problems:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUIvg4oKBss

Here's a larger, more complex one, being shown off at some sort of public demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKkNZLAqoZY
(Aww! I love the movement of his little tabi'ed feets!)

And here's one that has a bird head. Sacrilege! March of the Penguins, indeed...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jauHCUBY7zg

Lastly, check out this guy. "I've got a splitting headache..."

[xine]

:runs and hides:

creepy.

[Scarlet Glow]

Oh. My. Goodness.

[Pentox]

Now if only it would brew the tea for me and then bring it.

[auggy]

I'm with xine - creepy.

Though I would like to have me a server monkey.