Dancing Robots Help Preserve Japanese Culture

Posted by timothy on Monday January 17, 2005 @06:27PM from the pickling-is-a-form-of-preservation dept.

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."

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RUN! by Tablizer · 2005-01-17 18:50 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"And give a warm welcome to our next act, Sugar Plumb Fairy-A-Tron!"

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Mom, why are they doing that? by Tablizer · 2005-01-17 18:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"Hacked by Randy Moss".

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Re:I am sorry to say but... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-01-17 21:38 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why is there always at least one comment welcoming(or not) the "overlords"? It has to get old at some point. The scariest part is that it always gets top score and gets moded as funny.