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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."
What!! Mod parent up as funny, have you ever seen a japanese person dance in a nightclub? Or even heard karaoke???
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And you're quite the jackass, no? It doesn't change the fact that its an inappropriate time to mail my friend's phone. If I wanted to spend all day arguing with a trolling AC who doesn't know shitty gunjin from his ass, well..I'd be up at 3am.
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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.