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[SuicideGirls > News > All] TECHNOLOGY: Japanese Scientists Create World's First Ballroom-Dancing Robot: Japanese scientists have developed a fantastic dancing robot: The world's first ballroom-dancing robot is set to take to the floor for its first public performance this week at the World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. Developed by scientists at Tokhuro University, the Partner Ballroom Dance Robot (

[Dr. Im's IT News Blog] Dancing robot is strictly ballroom: Those with two left feet may soon be able to take ballroom dancing lessons from a partner with three wheels. The world's first ballroom-dancing robot is set to take to the floor for its first... University, the Partner Ballroom Dance Robot (PBDR) is able to predict the steps of a human partner

[Ideal Gadget] World First Ballroom Dancing Robot: Developed by scientists at Tokhuro University, the Partner Ballroom Dance Robot (PBDR) is able to predict the steps of a human partner based on body movement and react accordingly on its three wheels.

[B.L. Ochman's weblog - Internet strategy, marketing, public relations, politics with news and commentary] Dancing Robot Helps Promote Japanese Robot Conference at World Expo. Why No Blog?: Partner Ballroom Dance Robot(PBDR) has a female face and comes in bright blue or pink plastic. (A male model is being developed.) PBDR is able to predict the steps of a human partner based on body movement and react accordingly on its three wheels.

[I'm sorry, it clawed its way out of my mind (chuck_lw)] Yoinked from boingboing.net: Dancing robot is strictly ballroom The world's first ballroom-dancing robot is set to take... by scientists at Tokhuro University, the Partner Ballroom Dance Robot (PBDR) is able to predict the steps of a human partner based on body movement and react accordingly on its three wheels. The 1.65

[Blogsite.com] BL Ochman's weblog - Internet strategy, marketing, public ...: The Chinese Government has instructed all bloggers to register their sites and identify the person responsible by the end of June or face fines of up to one million yuan (about $121,000.) Other Internet sites already are required to register. The press advocacy group, Reporters without Borders, said in a press release, "The Chinese authorities use this type of announcement above all to intimidate website operators and bloggers." "The authorities also hope to push the most outspoken online sites to migrate abroad where they will become inaccessible to those inside China because of the Chinese filtering systems." In some countries, bloggers in political danger email their posts to a trusted person outside the country, who then posts to a blog. China also is taking steps to make that arrangement impossible. According to Reporters without Borders, the Chinese government system blocks access to hundreds of thousands of websites, including many dealing with news, ethnic minorities, human rights, the Falun Gong meditation movement, and pornography.

[Whatsnextblog.com] BL Ochman's weblog - Internet strategy, marketing, public ...: Partner Ballroom Dance Robot(PBDR) has a female face and comes in bright blue or pink plastic. (A male model is being developed.) PBDR is able to predict the steps of a human partner based on body movement and react accordingly on its three wheels.

[Robotsuits.com] ROBOTSUITS :: Ever wanted to ballroom dance but were just too afraid to practice with a real person? CNN has an article about a Ballroom Dancing Robot partner. This Dancing robot will make it's first public performance this week at the World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan.The dancing partner robot is not lite on it's feet, in fact it doesn't have feet, but instead it has three wheels to roll around so it can follow the leader's movements. The robot is able to predict the steps of a human partner based on body movement and react accordingly and even can match the upper body movements of the human partner.

[101publicrelations.com] PR Blog Watch: What's Next Blog. The "world's first ballroom-dancing robot," is helping to promote a ... based on body movement and react accordingly on its three wheels. ...

[Singularity.manilasites.com] Singularity : Robotics News Feed: These robots by Japan's top auto maker will act as a receptionist, look after the elderly, provide nursing care, and childcare.Toyota already has created biped robots that play musical instruments to entertain at the Aichi Expo. Before these robotscan become available scientists hope to make advances in battery technology, increased walking speed, and weight reduction.Toyota hopes to place these robots for sale in Toyota's 5,000 sales outlets across the nation (of Japan?). The robots will have a reasonable cost of aroundone hundred ($925 US) to several hundred thousand yen ($9,250 US?) with prices to fall once they are mass produced. However, another article claims just the opposite that Toyota has no plans to commercialize the humanoid robot it is developing.

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