finally, an electrifying romance

tired of meeting girls who can't ballroom dance? yeah, me too. well, that's okay, because japanese researchers have developed a stunningly designed pink robot to be our dance partners. the robot has a woman's face, a sensor on its waist to sense direction, and three wheels instead of feet to move around. the robot knows how to analyze your movements as you dance, allowing it to appropriately move its shoulders, neck, waist, and elbows. the research team leader, kazuhiro kosuge, acknowledged that the robot was not perfect at matching its human counterpart's subtlety, but who's perfect? kazuhiro noted that the project was not really about developing dancing robots (yeah right), but about developing robots with the technical ability and intuition to care for the elderly.

full article at baku today

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