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."

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[savuporo]

Hey, whats up with the exclusively moronic replies to robot news ?
Half of the posts are "robots taking over" and the second half make stupid anime jokes. and i thought Slashdotters are know their stuff when it comes to technology.
I recommend reading plyoump.com-s blog too, once you are on the site, for instance a recent post titled Sudden IQ drop among the "tech-bloggers" when robots are mentioned
I guess slashdot just proved the point again