Comments on Robot Japan Dance Contest
Dancing robots have been seen in futuristic films before. (Read
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"Take a look at this video showing how it is possible to control a robot with Microsoft's Kinect. I wonder if you could train a robot to dance by controlling its movements until it learned for itself.
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(Bill Christensen 1/17/2011 7:23:19 PM)
"I know there was an entire episode of Star Trek devoted to Data learning to dance for a wedding"
( 1/19/2011 5:32:33 PM)
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