To see how far we've come in just one short decade, compare it to this video from 2011 of the Robot Japan amateur robotic dance contest:
(Dancing robots)
The competition was held in an auditorium attached to the 350 year-old Tsukiji Hongan-ji Buddhist temple in Tokyo.
In his 1927 film Metropolis, Fritz Lang gives a robot the personality and likeness of a young dancer; the resulting robot dances for the upper caste men of the city.
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Humanoid Robots Tickle The Ivories
'The massive feet working the pedals, arms and hands flashing and glinting...' - Herbert Goldstone, 1953.
Golf Ball Test Robot Wears Them Out
"The robot solemnly hit a ball against the wall, picked it up and teed it, hit it again, over and again...' - Frederik Poh, 1954.
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