Slashdot | Dancing Robots Help Preserve Japanese Culture

Slashdot | Dancing Robots Help Preserve Japanese Culture: "Dancing Robots Help Preserve Japanese Culture
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Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 18, @01:27AM
from the pickling-is-a-form-of-preservation dept.
Neil Halelamien writes 'As reported on robots.net and other sources, researchers at Tokyo have used the HRP-2 Promet humanoid robot to help preserve moves from ancient Japanese dance for future generations. The researchers used motion capture to record the movements of a dancing master, then encoded and replayed them on the robot. The HRP-2 Promet robots are themselves quite interesting, capable of standing up after lying down and non-autonomously operating a backhoe. The external appearance was created by a designer known for his work on several anime series.'"