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China's dancing robots: how worried should we be?

The Guardian

Should we be impressed or worried by China's humanoid robot display? - video China's dancing robots: how worried should we be? Dancing humanoid robots took centre stage on Monday during the annual China Media Group's Spring Festival Gala, China's most-watched official television broadcast. They lunged and backflipped (landing on their knees), they spun around and jumped. The display was impressive, but prompted some to wonder: if robots can now dance and perform martial arts, what else can they do? Experts have mixed opinions, with some saying the robots had limitations and that the display should be viewed through a lens of state propaganda.


Dancing robot is the size of a grain of salt

Popular Science

The fully programmable, autonomous microbot only costs one penny to make. The microrobot, fully integrated with sensors and a computer, is small enough to balance on the ridge of a fingerprint. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Designing a swarm of fully autonomous, submillimeter-sized robots sounds like an expensive, if not impossible task. However, a team at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan not only built a new generation of recordbreaking, solar powered machines.

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What is Artificial Intelligence

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In this article, we will cover everything you need to know about Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence or AI is one of the most trending technologies of the 21st century. We're going to cover a brief history of artificial intelligence, what is artificial intelligence, the types of artificial intelligence, applications of artificial intelligence, and just a quick glimpse of the future of artificial intelligence. Let us start with a brief history of Artificial Intelligence. Let's start with John Mccarthy.


Are the Boston Dynamics robots really dancing? The creepy video, explained

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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.


The Morning After: Boston Dynamics' dancing robots are back

Engadget

Today, we've got stories on Apple's "ultra" security measures, someone squeezing entire movies on floppy disks and a deep dive on the ways we might connect, without touch, in a post-pandemic world. But for this opening salvo, let's home in on a family of dancing robots. Watch the Atlas robot and the entire Boston Dynamics family, including the dog-like Spot and box-stacking Handle, dance to "Do You Love Me" from The Contours, and you'll either feel affection or, well, repulsion. Boston Dynamics may now be 80 percent owned by car maker Hyundai, but it's keeping its sense of humor. Despite Google's Home Max being officially retired and pulled from sale a couple of weeks ago, the Google Store is once again offering the speaker for sale.


Boston Dynamics' SpotMini Can Dance Now

IEEE Spectrum Robotics

At IROS in Madrid a few weeks ago, Marc Raibert showed a few new videos during his keynote presentation. One was of Atlas doing parkour, which showed up on YouTube last week, and the other was just a brief clip of SpotMini dancing, which Raibert said was a work in progress. Today, Boston Dynamics posted a new video of SpotMini (which they're increasingly referring to as simply "Spot") dancing to Uptown Funk, and frankly displaying more talent than the original human performance. The twerking is cute, but gets a little weird when you realize that SpotMini's got some eyeballs back there as well. While we don't know exactly what's going on in this video (as with many of Boston Dynamics' video), my guess would be that these are a series of discrete, scripted behaviors that are played in sequence.


Amazon's Alexa now lives inside a dancing robot

Engadget

Lynx, a small white humanoid, gave yoga instructions as it slid its chunky leg back for the pose. A bright blue light flashed across the side of its round head to indicate activity. After a few more leg movements, it came back into standing position when Alexa's voice boomed: "Your next exercise is waist stretching." Ubtech Robotics, the Chinese company that launched the Alpha robot series and JIMU coding bots for kids, has partnered with Amazon to bring Alexa's voice-recognition capabilities to their latest robot called Lynx. Starting in Spring this year, you will be able to interact with the robot as if it were your personal assistant.


Robots take over Asia's Cutting-Edge IT and Electronics Comprehensive Exhibition (CEATEC)

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Japanese auto firm Denso, a subsidiary of Toyota, displays a robotic limb designed to support a surgeon's arm Meanwhile, Sharp is taking aim at the housing market with pint-sized Rin-chan, which can operate home appliances based on its owners' feelings. For example, if a house dweller says'it's too hot', the robot will turn on the air conditioning. Another star of the show is a mug-sized, doe-eyed robot called Kirobo Mini made by Toyota as a chatty companion for its human owners.


The Limits of Formal Learning, or Why Robots Can't Dance - Facts So Romantic

Nautilus

The 1980s at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory seemed to outsiders like a golden age, but inside, David Chapman could already see that winter was coming. As a member of the lab, Chapman was the first researcher to apply the mathematics of computational complexity theory to robot planning and to show mathematically that there could be no feasible, general method of enabling AIs to plan for all contingencies. He concluded that while human-level AI might be possible in principle, none of the available approaches had much hope of achieving it. In 1990, Chapman wrote a widely circulated research proposal suggesting that researchers take a fresh approach and attempt a different kind of challenge: teaching a robot how to dance. Dancing, wrote Chapman, was an important model because "there's no goal to be achieved. You can't win or lose. It's not a problem to be solved…. Dancing is paradigmatically a process of interaction."


The Limits of Formal Learning, or Why Robots Can't Dance - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

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The 1980s at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory seemed to outsiders like a golden age, but inside, David Chapman could already see that winter was coming. As a member of the lab, Chapman was the first researcher to apply the mathematics of computational complexity theory to robot planning and to show mathematically that there could be no feasible, general method of enabling AIs to plan for all contingencies. He concluded that while human-level AI might be possible in principle, none of the available approaches had much hope of achieving it. In 1990, Chapman wrote a widely circulated research proposal suggesting that researchers take a fresh approach and attempt a different kind of challenge: teaching a robot how to dance. Dancing, wrote Chapman, was an important model because "there's no goal to be achieved. You can't win or lose. It's not a problem to be solved…. Dancing is paradigmatically a process of interaction."