More than two decades later, she's back at it. After a fashion. Meet Vanessa 2. It all started when Howard got an outdated food delivery robot from a friend and decided to turn into a piano-playing puppet.
With the help of his friends Noah Klugman, also an engineer, and legal advice from lawyer Lane Powell, Howard set out to recreate Carlton's iconic video down to the smallest details, from her shirt to her hair and even the the gold moldings on the side of Carlton's piano. Instead of L. The video struck a chord, racking up more than , views and counting. It didn't take long for people around her pulled out their cameras, including Stacie Johnson, who had just seen the viral video online.
Robot Vanessa even got a thumbs up from real Vanessa after Howard and his friends brought the puppet to one of her concerts. And while Robot Vanessa may not be able to walk a thousand miles, she's already generating a million smiles.
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