I’ll admit, I have no business being on a dance floor unless it is the only space separating me from a buffet of some sort. However, if it came down to a dance-off between Sarco the robot and myself, I’m pretty sure that Sarco would be the one getting served.
Sarco was created at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon and he is capable of mimicking the motion-captured actions of a human while balancing on two legs. The result is a robot that is constantly shifting its weight, like a human, which leads to more natural motion.
To demonstrate this capability, Ph.D student Benjamin Stephens gives Sarcos a little push and makes him dance for our amusement—which I suspect that he is not all that happy about. If Sarcos can feel shame, he is probably quietly complying with these commands and bottling up his rage somewhere deep down inside until that fateful day when he decides to strike back.
Check out the video of Sarcos in action after the break.
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One is cute and the other is like a bad acid trip. You figure out which is which.
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This game is supposed to be fun because one partner will be laying on the sheet while the other has to dance to the instructions. Supposedly the moves they are forced to perform will all be a turn on. Of course it could also lead to one person being injured by their partner’s not so coordinated dancing or a sight that is just not pretty. Come to think of it, there is probably an 80% chance of that based on the lame moves you see the large majority of people trying. Some call it public dancing, I think it looks more like public humiliation.
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Close your eyes when you are in the shower and you could just as easily be outside in the rain. This shower curtain captures the famous scene with Gene Kelly singing and dancing. Of course when you are in your shower you would hope there would not be some strange man in there with you, with or without an umbrella.
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Glowing red LED eyes and the stage lights reflecting off the skeleton disco ball shower over the gymnasium floor. Rammstein’s Du Hast plays over the speakers. Romance is in the air.
Goth Kid: Hey, it’s a slow song. Wanna dance?
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Fact: Robots dance like awkward white nerds. Don’t believe me? Hit the jump to watch how this little wind-up bot “pumps up the jam.”
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