Dancing Robots - Sony's new robots!!!

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Awesome!!! I had been waiting a long time too see more frome this little robots, ever since some person posted it here a couple of months ago. Besides, I had heard this song on the radio a few weeks ago but didnt catch the name or the artist (they mustve said it at the beginning, and I didnt listen to it from the beginning). So this thread kind of killed 2 birds with one shot for me. T... read more.
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Dancing Robots - Sony's new robots!!!

tdktank59
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2682962

click on this link to watch the video!

dont know if the code will work if not search Dancing Robots on www.ifilm.com its the first link on the page

thats pretty cool look at the movements they are flush lol no jolting or anything looks like human movements lol pretty sweet stuff

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Fixed the wrong code..please dont try to embed flash...it is not possible in this forum

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mayank
well it seems to me that you are trying to embed flash file over here...well that is not possible in this board...secondly you should have reported this by using the report button..anyways..fixed it!

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atomicnacho
Pretty sweet video. The movements of the robots is increadibly fluid, and not jerky like I expected to see. Woulda liked to see them do the Hustle or the Macarena or something though.

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tdktank59
QUOTE(atomicnacho @ Jan 5 2006, 11:41 AM)
Pretty sweet video.  The movements of the robots is increadibly fluid, and not jerky like I expected to see.  Woulda liked to see them do the Hustle or the Macarena or something though.
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Yeah lol

that would be sweet but heh this was over in japan so what do you suspect?

btw mayank im sorry about not reporting i didnt notice that button there.
I also closed the browser after i posted i didnt look at if it worked sry about that.

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theplok
Very interesting video. The robots dance very fluid. Also, due to being robots, they are all perfectly in synce with one another.

I do have one thing I'm wondering about this though. Do you think that they dance to the music with listening censors and dance corresponding to that? Or do they pre-program a dance and then have them act it out at a certain time? Or maybe they just pre-program a dance and then they act them out when they first hear the music...

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Cerebral Stasis
It's not what it seems. The robots obviously knew what was coming before the music even started. They could have responded to a voice command, a motion command, or even a remote/bluetooth command, but the sequence is obviously pre-coded. I have seen other movies of these robots appearing to hold an intelligent conversation with some Japanese children (in Japanese, of course - subtitles were provided), complete with realistic voices (not the monotone Stephen Hawking-voicebox-like stuff). The conversation either had to be pre-programmed, or was being supplied on the fly via some kind of remote. There is no way that robotics could go from being almost nonexistant of artificial intelligence, to having TOY robots that can dance, speak, and do most anything else a child could do on it's own. The most advanced robotics labs still haven't got further than a robotic head that can communicate and, at least partially, think on it's own (more specifically, it plays out certain needs and drives that it has), and just that robotic head needs a few computers to work - let alone having all the bodily functions, as well as the processing and such, all cramped inside the space of a little toy robot. Other "robots" are just animatronic (meaning they look and act like they are intelligent, but they are just very detailed sculptures with preprogrammed movements) and are mostly made for movie special effects, as is the case with the Phillip K. *BLEEP* Ressurected Project.

When one does not understand how something works, one tends to expect a complicated and overly-superior function than that which it really has.

By the way, if you are interested in reading more about android head projects, check out this website.
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tdktank59
lol dude its sony... they made the psp and *BLEEP*... look at how big ipods are now they are fing skinny... its scary... next thing we know we will have an inplant ipod that holds 300 gigs thats the size of a atom...

its called science it just happens that japan does not spend its money on there army as much as we do so they have more to go towards buissnesses and so on better funds = better inventions... it could also be a learning robot... it has the capacity to listen and learn from it... but heh w/e i dont know much about this ill post later when i have more time and after i reserach this topic a bit more than i did before

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iwuvcookies
Yay we can get boogie on down with a robot. lol. I've seen this on tv before. I thought it was pretty cool. But they played Japanese music. I thought they would so some kind of techno robot type music. Dissappointed but i still think they're cool.

I know theres a robot that you can put ipod in and they dance and pump music to it. Its a dog type robot with blinking colored lights. oh well. i wonder what else can they do besides dance?

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wassie
hehe, this is exually kinda funny, but is it really new technology?
cause this is kinda easy to make right?

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atomicnacho
So Beck has hired these little guys for his latest video for Hell Yes. They are called QRIO and sony is producing them as toys to relase in 4 years or someithng. You can check iout the video at Beck.com, just go to the videos section.

Sony also has an article about it Here
They do a very similar dance routine, but it didn't look like the same routine to me.

As for them not being new technology, I really think that they are quite an advancement from any biped robot that I have seen. Both in terms of their ablilty to move smoothly and walk, and also their ability to accurately imitate human movements and dance. And I'm sure that since there are only 4 in the world that they were not easy to make.

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FLaKes
Awesome!!! I had been waiting a long time too see more frome this little robots, ever since some person posted it here a couple of months ago. Besides, I had heard this song on the radio a few weeks ago but didnt catch the name or the artist (they mustve said it at the beginning, and I didnt listen to it from the beginning). So this thread kind of killed 2 birds with one shot for me. Thanks! smile.gif

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Kun
Cool robots! smile.gif But they're so unusefull... and very very expensive. I've heared one man bought 34(!!!) dogs! He is really creazy o_O

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Cerebral Stasis
Just a few comments here.

When talking about the Honda robot, I assume you mean ASIMO, which was built back in 2000. While it has many breakthroughs in walking and interaction technology, it is a far cry from being any C-3PO. Furthermore, there are many more accurate and believeable robots (via animatronics) that are used in movies, such as Jurassic Park. Besides, the way the digital effects industry is going, it will soon be much cheaper to use 3D effects made in a computer than build real-life animatronic characters to use.

As for the QRIO robots being fluid in motion and quick to move, it may appear that way, but robots using motors will always have a slow response time. However, there have been experiments with robotic muscles that can react almost as fast as human muscles, and are about as strong. Furthermore, there have been theories concerning a new kind of artificial muscle that could react 1,000 times faster than an organic muscle, and could be much stronger, as well.

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xavierrd
Just one that follows a black line on a white surface tongue.gif I think the simplest of all, yet I enjoyed making it, from CDROMs and wrecked toys, and trying to make it run faster. By the way, I don't like lego stuff, metal and screws hold a lot more rude duty, jajajaja. At least I had more fun cutting and designing. laugh.gif

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spy_charly
haha well i think these guys (the robots) are sort of old, i mean they have a lot of time out there, i think i saw it by the beggining of the 2005, i also heard about the honda robot, one very competitive as well.

But well it would be great to heard from you guys if you have made a robot...

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