Visitors to the Digital Content Expo in Tokyo last weekend were treated to a choreographed dance routine featuring AIST's feminine HRP-4C robot and four humans.
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The performance, called "Dance Robot LIVE! - HRP-4C Cybernetic Human," is the culmination of a year-long effort to teach the humanoid to dance. The routine was produced by renowned dancer/choreographer SAM-san (a member of the popular music group TRF who has worked with numerous well-known artists like SMAP and BoA), and the lip-synced song is a Vocaloid version of "Deatta Koro no Yō ni" by Kaori Mochida (Every Little Thing).
Here are a few photos of the performance.
[Video: kmoriyama // Photos: Pink Tentacle]
Dan
I've seen enough movies and anime to know that at some point in the near future her hands will retract revealing to sub machine guns, and only a sexier, bustier female robot will be able to defeat her.
[]aaron
hahaha thats so true.... and then one of them will be made out of liquid metal and will want to kill john connor
[]Chaosmacherin
This scares the shit out of me O.O Creepy!
[]slabman
The career prospects for becoming a department store greeter, trade show girl etc now have a shelf life of 5-10 years
[]Theodore
Chuck E. Cheese, uncanny valley style.
[]Bill
They need to take more time and build her some better legs
[]Cthulhu
No offense intended to HRP-4C, but I still like much more her human counterparts.
'Till now, at least.
carnalmente,
[]Cthulhu
Dave
Y'know, the only thing that would make this better is if it was dancing to Beyonce's Single Ladies. I mean, we've seen ladies, drag queens, babies and puppets dance to this song, so why not a humanoid-Japanese-teen-girl robot?
[]unofficialdear
really cool. you can see them improve better and better, hopefully in my lifetime they will be fully realistic robots. :D
[]Cog
Of course the scary thing here is not that the tech is so advanced that it can imitate humans, but that the culture is so primitive that real girls mechanically dancing in sync remains somehow "entertainment".
[]Synchromystic
Cute girls are always entertaining. It can't be helped.
[]Barwood
"Big hands I know your the one~~"
[]D-Train
Robotic vaj's... the way of the future.
[]ent
at first i thought it was Yuki Isoya, but nahh...it's just c-3po
[]Kar
Look at all this new technology. More humanoid robots that can work longer than humans and maybe even more efficiently. What should we do? Have them work tough, labor intensive jobs that saves money? Perhaps work in remote areas not well accessed by human beings? The possibilities are endless. Humanoid robots could revolutionize how our world works and the quality of life.
But no, we'll just give them preteen faces and have them dance to jpop song so we can appeal to otaku nerd scientists as they cream their pants.
[]stfu
Chill out dude. I bet you dont do shit to help "revolutionize" how our world works and the quality of life. Why dont you go build robots and use them to make our world better instead of bitching about what other people are doing.
[]Joao
its robot dance
[]nikky
From now on i'm HRP -4C's fun.
[]Love her movements, love her style. Her voice is so fancy, he dress is very stylishly. As soon as i need to change my old broken leg, i will ask for such beauty legs like the ones she has. By the way, it make me so hot having a big hands with such elegance rotation.
Love you sweety¡¡
Good luck in your tour¡
Came to Madrid you have my home open for good to you¡¡¡
b0bfo55e
Disappointed at the pigeon toed, chubby legged dancers.
Spend all that money developing the robot and spoil it all with a badly choreographed spectacle like that?
[]icarus
Why does Japan always make female humanoid robots? There was also another female robot (and realistic looking too)which serves as a practicing tool for dentists. It converses with the dentist and even expresses pain when the dentists makes a mistake. Well, there was Asimo and it's male but the outward appearance is totally of a robot. If life-like robots were to be mass produced, it will be just like Chobits.
As much as we can make robots to appear natural and realistic, facial expressions and subtle body language can only be done by humans alone - at least for now
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