Dance Dance Robo-Lution

[Logan Westbrook]

Dance Dance Robo-Lution

Just getting one robot to dance is impressive, so a twenty robot chorus line is pretty spectacular.


Some robots can run, some can jump, and some can fly, but these robots? These robots dance. A team from Aldebaran Robotics has put together a troupe of twenty dancing robots for the Shanghai World Expo. It's not exactly body-popping and head-spinning, but watching them dances in perfect unison to Maurice Ravel's Bolero is pretty cool.

The troupe is made up of Aldebaran's Nao robot, which is highly articulated and capable of a pretty incredible range of movement. Each robot is about two feet tall, and has about as much processing power as a smartphone. A single Nao costs around €10,000, so the entire troupe is worth around quarter of a million dollars.

Source: Dvice [http://dvice.com/archives/2010/06/20-bots-dance-i.php]


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[rekabdarb]

one step closer to skynet damnit.

They'll dance to get our attention and distract us from the doom of the doom that happens to be the armada of the robot army

 

[maddawg IAJI]

Wait? Did I just get served?

OT: That's pretty cool. A little strange, but cool none the less. I wouldn't mind one of those dancing robots.

 

[Omegatronacles]

And when the robot apocalypse comes we'll all be sitting around going "But they looked so cute dancing as they shot their lasers at us"

 

[Jared]

Wow! Impressive! Alot of money in those lol guys! But still pretty impressive!

 

[Explosm]

one step closer to skynet

I lol'd

 

[Quaxar]

Synchronized dance? That's only a small step from synchronized murderdeathkill!

 

[DividedUnity]

God damn thats pretty awesome. Now make them breakdance. Then I'll be really impressed

 

[Abedeus]

Synchronized dance? That's only a small step from synchronized murderdeathkill!

- MOOOM DAAAD THE ROBOT IS TRYING TO KILL ME IN MY SLEEP!
- You liar, if you were asleep, you wouldn't know that.
- Oh, ri... BLERGH!

 

[PoliceBox63]

"First they were just for dancing. Then they began to learn..."

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

Those things wouldn't be nearly as creepy if they didn't have faces.

 

[Saerain]

I wonder what the hell the difference is, neurologically, between people who find robotics and CG creepy and those who find it creepy that people find it creepy.

 

[jpakaferrari]

7:25 robots make in the rear of the group make an exaggerated humping motion. Did they let Morgan from LRR play with these robots programming?

 

[Daemascus]

Rise my robotic minions!
(looks down)
Damn it! I said make them 20 feet tall not 2.

 

[Florion]

Ahahahahaha!

So, I guess they're, doing the robot.

?

please defenestrate me now, I'm sorry...

 

[Aeshi]

viva la robolution?

 

[ShadeOfRed]

Ahahahahaha!

So, I guess they're, doing the robot.

OH YOU!

And why are robots not commonplace yet? We see them all the goddamned time in these videos doing awesome things. We have the technology obviously.

 

[TheEpic_1]

the first bit of the routine, Im pretty sure, their doing the haka(New Zealands tribal war dance before they play most sporting events). But i could be wrong, then again, TEH ROBBITS ARE DOIN A WAR DANCE!!! RUN AWAZE!!