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Dancing With A Smart Robot

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 20, 2003 @03:56PM from the your-electronic-companion dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Yes, this is possible, thanks to researchers at Tohoku University, reports Japan Today in a brief article [Warning: it takes a while for loading]. Equipped with a computer, sensors and batteries, it can move in any direction on four wheels and has memory for five steps necessary to dance the waltz. This sidebar contains a photograph of a student waltzing with the robot, MS DanceR (Mobile Smart Dance Robot), coming from another short story carried by Ananova."

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If this isn't the fourth post... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-20 15:58 · Score: -1, Troll

...I'll have sex with this robot by shoving its head up my ass. And then I'll make cmdrtaco lick the robot clean.
Number 6 baby! by oktane · 2003-07-20 16:00 · Score: -1, Troll

Where can I purchase this contraption?

Stupid "wait 20 seconds before reply" cost me #6 spot.
Good news! by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-20 16:01 · Score: -1, Troll

Good news for slashdotters. Hooker-bots are probably the only thing they'll ever have sex with (besides Mr Hand).
GNAA by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-20 16:02 · Score: -1, Troll

NOTE TO THE GNAA TROLL:

You are a sinner. Repent now before it is too late. Every knee will bow and that's a *fact*.
Re:MODERATORS ARE ON CRACK by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-20 16:12 · Score: -1, Troll

Ah, the old reply-to-my-own-thread-as-AC-to-get-more-karma trick.

LOSER!!! L-O-S-E-R!!!!
Re:MODERATORS ARE ON CRACK by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-20 16:14 · Score: -1, Troll

How much you want to bet the moderators that modded it down were female?

(that is, if there any any females on slashdot hmm)