Dance

The ability to pickup the beat in a song and predict its timing, even shaking your hips to it if you’re that adept on the dance floor, is thought to be skill unique to humans, but new research suggests it may well extend to the animal kingdom.

A team of scientists have reported the first large-scale investigation into the genetics of musical rhythm. The study homed in on nearly 70 genetic variants linked with our ability to move in sync with a beat.

Might it be possible that someday, an official might get you to dance around in order to confirm that you're really you? Perhaps not, but nonetheless, a study has determined that people's identities can be matched to their unique style of dancing.

The Mictic body instrument is a pair of motion-sensing wristbands that connect to your phone via Bluetooth and then create music to match your movements, giving you the chance to play weird air-instruments, or generate a custom soundtrack for your dance moves.

Boston Dynamics is having a busy week, hot on the heels of its video showing Atlas mastering parkour, and the four-legged Spot wandering construction sites, it has released another video. This one unveils a lighter side to its robots, with Spot dropping some impressive dance moves to Uptown Funk.

​A new Guinness World Record was recently set in China when 1,069 simultaneously completed a choreographed dance routine. This was the third time in twelve months the world record for “most robots dancing simultaneously” has been broken.

Point Motion is a new motion sensing system that lets you create music through the movement of your body. Initially available as a package containing both the software and a wireless camera, it will also work with existing webcams.

Members of the Input Devices and Music Interaction Lab at McGill University have collaborated with a choreographer, a composer, dancers and musicians to create three groups of sensor-packed, internally-lit digital music controllers that attach to a dancer's costume.

Robotics developer Falkor Systems has developed a dance piece in which a human dancer performs with an autonomous AR Drone quadcopter.

Tosy transforming speaker becomes a robot that dances along with your music.

TOSY is launching two new toy robots, one of which dances to the beat of user-supplied music, and one of which can draw sketches.

The Nissan Juke Box is a specially designed Juke with a massive integrated sound system.