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Dancing Robots Help Preserve Japanese Culture
Neil Halelamien writes "As reported on robots.net and other sources, researchers at Tokyo have used the HRP-2 Promet humanoid robot to help preserve moves from ancient Japanese dance for future generations. The researchers used motion capture to record the movements of a dancing master, then encoded and replayed them on the robot. The HRP-2 Promet robots are themselves quite interesting, capable of standing up after lying down and non-autonomously operating a backhoe. The external appearance was created by a designer known for his work on several anime series."
I for one CANNOT welcome some japanese dancing fairy robots as my overlords. Maybe if they were veritech and at least transformed, but these robot overlords are way to geisha for me.
There's nothing Intelligent about Intelligent Design.
Do the do DDR?
...kill all the humans. Step, step, turn, shuffle, kill all the humans...
Well it's better that the robots dance than go berserk and start eating old people's medicine.
The hell with that. I want that thing as a bodyguard...or so big I can sit in its head.
Optimus Prime doing an oldschool windmill; or better yet, a b-boy battle with Megatron!
The system is down...
...I think the robot references might only be on the cd version of the song though)
Dancing Robots... (they're taking over)
Dancing Robots... (they're taking over)
Foootbaaaallll!
(just ask Strong Bad
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If only they used these robots to record the dance moves from Napoleon Dynamite......
Good heavens, there is money to be made.
Someone call Sony.
I mean seriously, these people build super robots, then teach them to dance? Couldn't we at least get them to do my laundry?
But can they push Grandma down the stairs?
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There is good reason and already a precedent for preserving culture via technical means. A planet was dying, its sun going nova, and its people were going to die out. Thankfully due to technical achievements like this, this dying planet's culture, traditional dances, etc. were uploaded into a probe and sent out into space. There, it encountered a captain of a federation flagship, established a neural connection with him, and passed on a generation's worth of knowledge and experience on to him, before automatically deactivating itself.
The people of Kitaan will be remembered.
Score +1 for insanely slow robots of the world.
It's a union robot.
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And if they were redone by these guys, could it do Mosh Mosh Revolution ?
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Optimus Prime has prior art, right here.
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Is it because I'm living in Japan and out of sync with all of you?
Living in Japan... out of sync...? Nice try, robot scum -- you'll never take us alive!
Just like a goddamn robot to go for first post...
...does it dance to ogg files?
Dancing robots help preserve culture - In Japan!
I hear that in Korea, only old people preserve culture!
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Feel glad waltz isn't part of Japanese culture. .. stamp 200 pound steel foot down on human partner's leg ...wait for "AAAAAGHHHH" ... step... turn ... step ... stamp foot ....
Step... turn
You are definitely a Luddite and a human chauvinist. You are a disgrace to human race. And the idea of shortsighted people like you being allowed to post online really freaks me out.
P.S. Not to mention that you have serious problems with logic, probably caused by your sub-par intelligence. Just a few months ago the work was finished on restoring documentary films about early 20th century Britain. Do you think that the British cultural heritage should not have been preserved by film cameras? Do you think it has lost its meaning? We humans use technology, deal with it.
P.P.S. And don't you dare post your opinion on an Internet forum ever again. That's disgusting, go to a park or a public square, and share your opinions with others, don't hide behind a computer. Communications between humans should never be done via a computer or a telephone, otherwise they lose their meaning.
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when it can do the robot.
AND the worm.
Halitosis - (n.) Halle Berry's Camel Toe.
Based on tons of evidence, I didn't know Japanese culture had anything besides robots!