They do the robot! :-)

That is awesome.. and yet kind of freaky!

Here I was, a couple of days ago, thinking the breakdancing robot was creepy and obnoxiuous.

But this is bringing creepyness to a whole new level. What the hell is wrong with these people dressing the biped as a Hentai schoolgirl? Hentai translates to ‘abnormality’ or ‘perversion’ which is the category I would put this in.

Don’t get me wrong I love robotics but this video leaves me with a disturbed image of where this is heading.

Yay! Another step towards sexbots. Soon we won’t need women.

I’d have to say this is a bit odd… Not only that, I don’t understand who actually can find this impressive. I’ve seen robots/robotic arms that have a hell of a lot more mobility and fluid-ness to their movement.

This is just some crap Japanese team trying to be another group of people who made as Caleb put it “a bag of servos”.

Ridiculous and I personally think a waste of servos, metal, time, and money.

I think its a cool concept, but we have already seen robots do way more amazing things, needs more industrial line dancing.

I’ve seen hamsters dance better. What a waste of time (both making that stupid bot and me watching 4+ minutes of the thing waving it arms like Timmy in Southpark).

In my mind, this proves the uncanny valley hypothesis. Not to mention, that robot didn’t have a chance with the beautiful announcer lady standing behind her.

Does not have shit on dancing santa

This is the most disturbing thing I’ve seen today.

best part of the video was the presenter in the background rolling her eyes and trying not to watch lol

Where’s the robot you’re talking about? All I see is some Japanese guy trying to dance…

Looks like the guy is remote controlling her.
Acctually pretty cool, if you ask me.

I would like to see there technical implementation of the feet (balancing)

I realize these “bots” are RC, but the dance fighting is cool, none the less:

Also. this:

You can tell the presenter is having a tough time keeping up that smile.

I wonder when a uncanny valley sexbot fetish will show up.

oh, “doing the robot” can now have a totally different meaning :)

I don’t know why everyone is so creeped out by this. It’s a good song imo, very catchy. Obviously sexbots are one possible future iteration of this technology, but that’s gonna happen whether we have robot dance-offs or not. Honestly, I’m exceedingly happy they have robot dance-offs. It’s exploring the field of robotic locomotion more and more. If advancing the field means robot dance competitions to generate interest then so be it. It’s not creepy people. Seriously, get over yourselves and look behind the robot dressed in the schoolgirl’s uniform and recognize the scientific and engineering benefits that come from this.

FOR SCIENCE!

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