Dancing Robots
For the UTS Open Day on 27 2011, Dr Benjamin Johnston (QCIS's Magic Lab) and Craig Shuard (UTS FEIT R&D Team) developed an excellent video of a Nao robot music and dance routine. The video was produced as follows:
- Choreography, software design and robot programming by Dr Benjamin Johnston, ARC Senior Research Associate in the Innovation & Enterprise (Magic) Lab at UTS
- Music by Craig Shuard, Research Administration in FEIT at UTS
- Videographed by Pramod Parajuli, PhD Student from Nepal on Endeavour Leadership Scholarship studying in The Magic Lab at UTS
- The Nao robots are made by Aldebaran in France and cost around $20,000 each
- The robot behaviour design and development took many weeks to develop in the Magic Lab
- Robotics research in the Magic Lab was funded by two ARC Discovery Projects
See the robot dance in the YouTube(au) video below:
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The YouTube(au) video below features the Adebaran Nao robots dancing with hip-hop dancers, Wickid Force at the UTS Open Day on 28 August 2010. The event was featured in the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday 28 August 2010. Dr Benjamin Johnston had programmed the dance, called "Dance Forth, to carefully encode the dance sequence to Wickid Force's choreography.
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