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Watch This Captivating Dance Routine for ParalympiansColossal brings to our attention this amazing video made for the 2020 Paralympics in Tokyo. It was part of the September 5 closing ceremony in which the Olympic responsibility was passed off to the 2024 games in Paris. Sadeck Waff, a dancer and choreographer, orchestrated the 128 performers. Waff began his career as a master of pop and lock dancing and you can see that influence in the arm movements that he arranged for these dancers.

Spot Robot Dances in a Halftime ShowIn case you have been wondering why college tuition is so high these days, behold the Mizzou halftime show Saturday. The spotlight performer was a Spot robot from Boston Dynamics. Watch him shake his tail to The Jackson 5's song "Dancing Machine."The University of Missouri College of Engineeringacquired their first Spot robot during the spring 2021 semester, and now they gave at least three. The student engineers have been programming their robots to do various things, like pushups and possibly some football moves, but chose to debut Spot's talents to the public with the dance team and marching band. A good time was had by all.But then again, maybe they should have taught those robot dogs more football skills. Mizzou lost that game to Tennessee, 24-62. No one in Missouri is thinking about that, though, since the robot dog stole the show and gave us a viral video.(Image: Mizzou Engineering)#SpotRobot #robot #UniversityofMissouri #dance #cheerleader #FootballGame #Mizzou #BostonDynamics

American Woodcock Teaching Its Chicks How to Lure WormsThe American woodcock has a peculiar way to rustle up earthworms - it rocks back and forth as it walks!People think that the American woodcock's peculiar bobbing walk is a form of worm grunting, as vibration of the soil encourage worms to surface (presumably because the vibrations are similar to those produced by digging moles that eat them - so the worms are trying to escape their feared predator).#bird #dance #AmericanWoodcock #wormgrunting #wormcharming #chick

Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Spot Challenged BTS to a Dance-OffBoston Dynamics' robot Spot has got some smooth moves! Watch as the company challenged K-pop sensation BTS to a dance-off with seven Spot robots dancing to the band's 2020 hit song IONIQ: I'm On It.In a behind-the-scenes blog post, Boston Dynamics roboticists explained how they created the dance:Monica Thomas, a professional choreographer and former dancer, took the lead on choreography for “Spot’s On It”, as she did for Boston Dynamics’ previous dance videos. Outlining a dance routine for robots, she notes, presents a whole separate set of challenges from traditional choreography. For one thing, she’s in constant communication with Boston Dynamics engineers to explore which steps the robots are physically able to do. And, of course, Spot has twice as many legs as a human dancer. “When I try to replay the choreography on my own body, my knees bend the wrong way, even if I put myself on all fours,” Thomas says. “I have less knowledge about what things even could look like, and so I have a lot more flexibility about what it does look like.”...Thomas handed off dance steps to Jakob Welner, a robotic movement consultant based in Denmark, who animated them in Autodesk Maya. “You can do anything you want in the software, artistically,” Welner says. “But as soon as you want it to work on a robot, you need to comply with physics, and you need to comply with the mechanics and dynamics of the robot.”#BostonDynamics #robot #SpotRobot #BTS #dance #KPopView the full video clip below: