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Robotics

Boston Dynamics' Spot can now dance, twerk, and do the running man

Rich Haridy October 16, 2018

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.

Spot rocking the Boston Dynamics d-floor

Robotics

Do the Robot: 1,000 bots boogie into the record books

Rich Haridy August 23, 2017

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.

A new world record was set with 1,069 robots dancing simultaneously

Music

Point Motion makes music from movement

Chris Wood June 8, 2016

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.

The software will also work with standard webcams, meaning that you don't actually have to pick ...

Electronics

Instrumented Bodies gives music and dance some backbone

Paul Ridden August 7, 2013

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.