A human-robot dance duet | Huang Yi & KUKA

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Published 2017-11-13
Harmoniously weaving together the art of dance and the science of mechanical engineering, Huang Yi performs a man-machine dance duet with KUKA -- a robot he conceptualized and programmed -- set to stirring cello by Joshua Roman.

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All Comments (21)
  • @_yaboi
    Next: a human does the robodance and a robot does the humandance
  • @savannahkat4093
    The fluidity of the robot's movements is pretty incredible. Obviously well-designed, and shows how far we've come in even just the past year or two in terms of improvement towards lifelike function of our robotics.
  • @zubaidaqwertyds9371
    Wonderful execution..not just dance but a form of art...perfect synchronisation..
  • @ryusm92
    Probably in about 50 years or so, this clip will be shown as an example of a humanoid development the way we show those room-sized computers from 100 years ago now
  • @CognizantPsyche
    Thousands of years after the last human died, the last remaining legacy of this once proud species still carried on in it's solitude, an AI which over time developed a singular emotion: loneliness. In an attempt to quell the ceaseless bedlam it developed a doll in the likeness of it's former creators and pulled it's strings. This endless waltz played on, it's echos heard throughout the vast wasteland of a once lush planet. ...or something like that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  • @somedude5749
    May this romance unite both man and machine, so that our two houses may finally know peace, and that no blood nor motorfluid be spilled from this day forth.
  • @petersparling2992
    Fascinating to succumb to the illusion of mutual empathy while watching this. Other dancers (Fred Astaire and his hat rack, cane and countless other inanimate objects) have danced duets with "things" and made them come alive with their own powers of empathy and expression. Choreography IS programming in a sense. We dancers often talk about body memory or muscle memory: it is our faith, we put our trust in it, we rely upon it. Neuroscientists debate its validity or what we are actually talking about. To design and program a robot for movement says more about our desires to map and control the production of motion than it does the making of art. But then consider any instrument. It is inanimate until played. (The "stirring cello" is J.S. Bach, the master of all musical motion.)--Peter Sparling
  • @pathacker4963
    Amazing! The best example of pure art that I've seen lately.
  • @Dukeofvampires1
    The question is: does human learn robot's program, or robot actually heaving a feedback to adapt to human.
  • @malieck4005
    awesome performance, especially the last minutes. wow!