Nov 21

Dance: Point Toe, Click Mouse

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Chris Elam expands the reach of new dance from occasional live productions to an engaged Web audience.

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Aug 10

Humanoid robots could still do the twist in 2193

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If no one’s complaining when the Rock-afire Explosion busts out a Bubba Sparxxx jam, we doubt the future alien population of this here planet will have any beef with an android cousin doing the Tango. In a bizarre feat of preservation, a team from the University of Tokyo, Japan has used “video motion-capture systems to record the movement of a dancer performing a Japanese folk routine called the Aizu-Bandaisan.” Rather than just filing it on a DVD, however, they are teaching Kawada Industries’ HRP-2 to mimic the moves, which could open the door (wider) for robotic dance teachers of the future. If you think it sounds weird, just wait ’til you catch the thing on video.

[Thanks, Eileen]

 

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