<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2aa83b7e-85b9-4eac-89f0-c9606708aca2/8C0C8424-6448-428E-BB46-D9A530A7D422/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://the-green-house.blogspot.com/2007/08/robots-to-be-folk-dance-historians.html" href="http://the-green-house.blogspot.com/2007/08/robots-to-be-folk-dance-historians.html" style="font-size: 11px;">the-green-house.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://the-green-house.blogspot.com/2007/08/robots-to-be-folk-dance-historians.html"><P>A HUMAN-SIZED robot shows off its newly learned dance steps. Scientists in Japan who taught the robot to imitate the steps of a dancer say it could be used to record the movements of traditional dances being lost as their performers die off.</P> <P>To demonstrate the prancing dancebot's prowess the team programmed the 1.5 metre tall, 58 kilogram machine to imitate the graceful sways and whirls of the aizu bandaisan, a Japanese folk routine. To prove its accuracy, the robot can perform alongside a human dancer. And despite its Terminator appearance, the robot is remarkably lifelike.</P> <P>Shin'ichiro Nakaoka and his colleagues at Tokyo University taught the dancebot - named HRP-2 or Promet - using video capture techniques to record human dance movements. The <I>New Scientist</I> said these were converted into a sequence of robotic limb movements.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://the-green-house.blogspot.com/2007/08/robots-to-be-folk-dance-historians.html"><DIV> When they build a dancebot that can get drunk enough to get out on the dance floor — those Japanese scientist will have a market in Australia.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/8C0C8424-6448-428E-BB46-D9A530A7D422/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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