A virtual "robot rapper" has been dropped by a record label following criticism that it perpetuated racist stereotypes. Just days after announcing it had signed the computer-generated FN Meka, Capitol ...
When we first covered the emerging field of lovotics, the science of human-robot love, we had no idea that it would turn out to be one of the most popular stories ever published on ExtremeTech. It ...
Rapper FN Meka is certainly a product of his times. He drives a gold-plated Rolls-Royce, a Gucci-print Tesla truck, and a slime green Lamborghini. On TikTok, where he has racked up 9 million followers ...
When Capitol Records signed so-called robot rapper FN Meka earlier this month, it billed the move as a new frontier in the music industry. But just weeks after the Black male cyborg debuted its first ...
Robots! They're just like us — because they can get cancelled, too, apparently. Virtual rapper FN Meka made FN headlines when it was signed by Capitol Records, who claimed it was the "first AR artist" ...
AI rapper FN Meka was dropped by its record label within days of being signed, after being deemed racially insensitive. Music business insider Jamie Collinson unpicks this sorry tale - and analyses ...
FN Meka, a “robot rapper” powered by artificial intelligence, with over 10million followers on TikTok and more than a billion views on the platform, has inked a deal with Capitol Records On the song, ...
Meet Meka Robotics' M1: It's mobile, has dextrous arms, smart software, uses modified Microsoft Kinect sensors, and if you work in manual industries, could one day steal your job. Meet the Matrix, er, ...