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by bigbizisverywyz 1989 days ago
I personally would have loved to see a human dancer dancing alongside the robots, that would have given an interesting comparison.
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Me too. Wouldn’t be cool if the robots dance along humans, replacing iconic videoclips or scenes? Like the scene of Jerry (from Tom & Jerry) dancing with Gene Kelly https://youtu.be/2msq6H2HI-Y Or Paula Abdul “Opposites attract” https://youtu.be/xweiQukBM_k
This duet between a human dancer and an industrial robot might interest you as well: https://youtu.be/Q-sK-s_TzN0
Here's a similar video, where the same robot plays table tennis:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIIJME8-au8

thank you, very nice performance!
You dont want to be anywhere near heavy powerful moving machinery, thats basic OSH. Glitching robot could snap your neck without skipping a beat (so to speak). There are hundreds of videos on the internet of people being decapitated, torn apart and squished by machinery. Not to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Williams_(robot_fatalit...
These robots are nowhere near the strength of an industrial one, so that’s a bad comparison - it is perfectly safe to dance alongside them.

I am not sure about the exact number, but the dog-like robot can handle at most 30-40 kilos of weight, maybe the humanoid a bit more but in the same ballpark. The most dangerous would be the rolling one, since it has a counterweight, and crashing into someone would be bad but that’s it.

They are absolutely not your average “able to lift 1 tonne” hydraulic arm robots that could indeed barely notice a human as resistence in its movement.

Nothing a green screen can't fix
Lack of green screen is what made this video so impactful. Having a human dancing on the other side of a barrier might have worked.
You can see a side-by-side comparison with the original artists in the video linked in my comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25687540

Here's a 90s version of that from Alexander McQueen: https://youtu.be/ErE7O5NceGQ