thank you for this … I started reading and only got a couple of pages in to the first story before it made me think about two sort of “unusual” things … the first being Hatsune Miku … a vocaloid, that got so popular she was doing world tours … and Miim, google HRP-4C a humanoid robotics project )that sadly got dropped) … if you google HRP-4C one of the videos of her shows her singing and dancing, on a stage, with her back-up being human dancers … while her performance would not have won any awards, the fact that a humanoid robot was even capable of doing anything like that is pretty awesome … so, take what Miim was, and advance it 20-30 years more, and who knows what might be possible