Robot doing swan lake dance

Spotted this today: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2010/10/robot-prima-ballerina-debuts.html

They call that dancing?!? I say Yellow Dance Machine performs much better ;-)

 

""We wanted to show that

"“We wanted to show that robots aren’t just industrial, functional machines,” explains Asplund. "We can actually connect with them emotionally."

Those swedes are just SO romantic!

Very Herky Jerky

Ineresting idea, but I usually think of ballet as having fluid movement…

They should have it krumping to some funk beat instead.