
TBS: Humanoid Robot Capable of Dancing to Japanese Folk Song
A humanoid robot dances with smooth movements to the tune of the traditional folk song "Aizubandaisan" which originated in Fukushima Prefecture. The robot developed by a consortium led by the University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science is capable of copying an example of dance demonstrated by a teacher after memorizing the patterns of bodily movements of the dance...The day may come when forms of traditional Japanese entertainment will be conveyed from humans to robots
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