Robot belly-dancer shakes her stuff
A computer program that mimics fish nerves creates the perfect wriggle.
20 January 2004 / Nature.com
She can shimmy, she can roll, she can backbend. She even sports a teasing, low-slung skirt around her waist.
...Jimmy Or of Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, said he gained inspiration watching Lucy Liu sashay her stomach in the film Charlie's Angels. The sight prompted him to sign up for dance lessons of his own....Several years on, Or has created a squat, shimmying robot with a flexible spine called Waseda Belly Dancer No. 1. It has so far mastered a particularly difficult belly-dancing move, the Camel, which involves sending waves rippling along the torso.
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