The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger is famous for his hip-snaking sorcery on stage, but the lead singer may have been shown up by Boston Dynamic robot'Spot' in a new video. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the British band's'Tattoo You' album, Boston Dynamics' engineers taught Spot to dance and lip-sync like Jagger in the'Start Me Up' music video. The company also trained three other Spot robots to recreate the moves of fellow band members Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts. During the video, the lead Spot moves its long neck to mimic the motions Jagger makes with his arms and the robot also opens its mouth to lip-sync along with the Rockstar. The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger is famous for his hip-snaking sorcery on stage, but the lead singer may have been shown up by Boston Dynamic robot'Spot' in a new video The veteran British band first began performing in 1962 and are the first to score a number one album on the British charts across six different decades.

TikTok has made on-beat dances and movements mainstream. But what if you went offbeat or the video you recorded had some lag to your perfect dance moves. Adobe can fix that for you. The company showed off an AI-powered experiment at its Adobe Max conference that syncs your off-beat movement to the beat of the music. Researchers used computer vision to follow the body movement of the person in the video.

It's one thing to have your cabbage patch or running man shown up by Zoomers on TikTok, but it's another level of embarrassment to have a robot out dance you. That's exactly what Boston Dynamics' cohort of robots -- including its dog Spot and more human-like bot Atlas -- did in a video that resurfaced on Twitter this weekend. Swaying to the tune of the 1962 classic "Do You Love Me?" by the Contours, the robotic dance team inspired awe, disbelief, and dread in users. But while online lamenting over the robot apocalypse is nearly always tongue-in-cheek, the engineering achievement lurking behind Spot's dance moves means this reality could be much closer and darker than we realize. It is difficult to believe your eyes when you watch the Boston Dynamics robots bust a move -- albeit jerkily -- in the December 2020 video that made new Twitter rounds this weekend.

Boston Dynamics has released two incredible videos of its famous robotic dog, Spot, pulling off some very impressive dance moves. The first clip shows seven Spot robots performing a highly choreographed dance in union to the music of South Korean K-pop sensation BTS. In a second bit of footage released by the Boston-based firm Spot is seen meeting and showing the boy band its competent dance moves. Boston Dynamics said the videos are'in celebration' of its full acquisition by South Korean motor company Hyundai, which was announced last week. Funky: Seven units of the robotic dog Spot are seen performing a variety of impressive moves to K-pop band BTS's music in a new video released by Boston Dynamics In time with the music, the seven Spot's arms shoot out into a fluid series of elaborate patterns In the first video, the seven Spots are dancing to the band's 2020 song'IONIQ: I'm On It'.

Hyundai has officially completed its acquisition of Boston Dynamics, the creator of the internet's favorite dancing Spot and Atlas robots (which only occasionally look like dystopian nightmare machines). And to celebrate, the company is collaborating with K-pop sensation BTS on a new video that shows seven Spot robots grooving to the band's 2020 song "IONIQ: I'm On It." And while Spot's smooth dance moves might bring a frisson of worry to any K-pop fans thinking that K-pop boy-bands might be the next industry that Boston Dynamics is targeting for its robots to replace human workers in, right now it seems that BTS isn't too worried about the competition. A second video shows off the band celebrating the Hyundai acquisition alongside a Spot robot, and both boy band and bot come together for a brief dance-off. In a behind-the-scenes blog post, the company details how it pulled off the longer, coordinated dance routine, which involved incredibly precise programming (rather than using the robot's built-in sensors or obstacle avoidance algorithms that Spot usually uses to get around and accomplish tasks).

TikTok has made on-beat dances and movements mainstream. But what if you went offbeat or the video you recorded had some lag to your perfect dance moves. Adobe can fix that for you. The company showed off an AI-powered experiment at its Adobe Max conference that syncs your off-beat movement to the beat of the music. Researchers used computer vision to follow the body movement of the person in the video.

In other words, the research from the University of Jyväskylä, indicates that the way you dance is unique, and from the subtle differences between dance patterns, algorithms can tell it's you rather than someone else. The objective of the research was to apply machine learning to understand how and why music affects people the way that it does. To explore this question, the Finnish scientists used motion capture technology (much like the technology now common movies with a CGI element) to gain an insight about the uniqueness of dance moves and to also extrapolate what the dance move might say about the person. From studying different patterns of dancing, the researchers are of the view that they can determine how extroverted or neurotic a person is and also draw insights in the particular mood a person is experiencing. The recent study used seventy-three people, who were motion captured dancing to eight different forms of music: Blues, Country, Dance/Electronica, Jazz, Metal, Pop, Reggae and Rap.

For decades machines have been able to understand simple musical features like beats per minute. Now AI is boosting their abilities to the point that they can not only figure out what particular genre of music is playing, but also how to appropriately dance to it. It's obvious that the dancing style in an EDM club is very different from the way people waltz in a hotel ballroom. And even if you're no country music fan, your foot may tap and your head softy sway when you hear the nostalgic "Country Roads" chorus. How our bodies respond to diverse musical stimuli almost seems instinctual -- how to teach that to a machine?

For decades machines have been able to understand simple musical features like beats per minute. Now AI is boosting their abilities to the point that they can not only figure out what particular genre of music is playing, but also how to appropriately dance to it. It's obvious that the dancing style in an EDM club is very different from the way people waltz in a hotel ballroom. And even if you're no country music fan, your foot may tap and your head softy sway when you hear the nostalgic "Country Roads" chorus. How our bodies respond to diverse musical stimuli almost seems instinctual -- how to teach that to a machine?

On Sunday evening, more than 6 million people gathered online via streaming services such as Twitch and YouTube to watch the end of the world. Not our world, thankfully, but the world of Fortnite, which was sucked into a black hole, taking the whole game and all player characters with it. If you try to load Fortnite today, you'll be presented with a blank screen. When developer Epic Games called the finale of Fortnite Season 10 "The End", it wasn't kidding. OK, before confused parents start celebrating, let's be clear: Fortnite will be back, it's just that Epic has closed out the first chapter of the game, which has amassed 250 million players since the launch of its Battle Royale mode in September 2017.