Meet this tiny robot ballerina

Ballet Des Moines' artist in residence, Amenda Tate Corso, creates paintings based on the dancers' motion and movement, find out how in this video. While rehearsing Delcid wears a cell phone transmitting a Bluetooth signal to a movement controlled robot creating art based on his motion. Gliding across a small stage, the dancer's arm flourished with the ornamentation of the music and punctuated each pass of the platform with a staccato embellishment. But this particular dancer was distinctly different from the men and women relevéing and jeté-ing nearby. Manibus, as this flapjack-sized dancing robot is called, is the creation of local engineer-turned-artist Amenda Tate Corso, Ballet Des Moines' newest artist-in-residence. The Manibus project, which captures a dancer's movements via a motion-sensor app and translates them into a painting, marks Ballet Des Moines' first foray into the emerging national trend of marrying computational technology with dance.