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Konnichiwa! Kitty Desu!

by Darren Pierce : Radar, Radar! : 07.12.04 3:50pm EST

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Just in time for Kitty's 30th anniversary, Sanrio's most famous character comes alive in robot form. Hello Kitty Robo's CCD camera eyes can store facial recognition data on up to 10 people, which, combined with vocal intonation sensing, allows Kitty to chat with you using over 20,000 conversational patterns, arm gestures, and LED whisker displays. At 13 pounds and 20 inches, Kitty will demand some attention.

Hello Kitty Robo goes on sale November the first, the character's official Sanrio birthday, for a charmingly cute ¥400,000.

Read about Hello Kitty Robo from Yahoo Jp.

If three and a half grand is a little steep for your Sanrio addiction, Sega Toys has had a much more affordible (¥5,980) R/C Kitty on the market for some time now who can talk, play simple games, move with an R/C controller, tell the time, and change her facial expressions.