The Digital Content Expo in Tokyo is the place to go see where advances in digital content have led, what products and art people are now creating digitally and to generally get a taste of where things are going in industries as diverse as anime, gaming, medicine, biotech and enterprise.
By all reports, it wasn’t a great event this year but one thing that did stand out to visitors was this, a choreographed dance routine between AIST’s feminine HRP-4C robot and four (human) girls.
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology has developed the software Choreonoid enabling a robot to make complicated moves like dancing by moving computer graphics of the robot on a display by a mouse before the action.
As the Pink Tentacle blog lays out, the performance, called “Dance Robot LIVE! is the result of a year of R&D efforts to teach the android to dance. Behind the routine was famous dancer/choreographer SAM-san (a member of the popular music group TRF and someone who has worked with the lieks of SMAP and BoA), and the lip-synced song is a Vocaloid version of “Deatta Koro no Yō ni” by Kaori Mochida (Every Little Thing).
More coverage over at Pink Tentacle.
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I mean the girl with long bangs and her hair up in a ponytail, sorry.
My brother showed this video to me. I’m happy and amazed that we can program a robot to dance. What’s the name of the song?? Can somebody please translate what they are saying? Furthermore, I like the girl with her hair up in a ponytail. She gets my vote for the cutest dancing girl. She puts her all into it.
Wow!! Japanese presentation have often dubtful taste. I agree Nathaniel this is scary or fit with weird minded.
Oops, sorry…can’t
Great editing again by the Gaijinpot team – ‘….who has worked with the LIEKS of…..’ and ‘…lip-SYNCED.’ Doing wonders for the written English level in Japan. If you’re struggling for proofreaders or even someone who can spell, I’ll happily check some or your ‘writer’s’ submissions before you post them live. I’ll even do it for free just to help you out. Come on Gaijinpot – most of the English speakers in Japan are teachers, why cant you just get your articles correctly checked before letting people look at them? Not too professional is it?
the technology may change but J pop still sounds the same.
This scares me. Thankfully the nice looking girls in the background balance things out a little