Making Robots Dance Without Dancing the Robot

July 5, 2016 11:08 PM

Making a Robot Dance to Music Using Chaotic Itinerancy in a Network of FitzHugh-Nagumo Neurons "We propose a technique to make a robot execute free and solitary dance movements on music, in a manner which simulates the dynamic alternations between synchronisation and autonomy typicallyobserved in human behaviour."
posted by lucasgonze (8 comments total)

Someone should post those procedural dancing bears from Twitter
posted by grobstein at 11:32 PM on July 5, 2016

As a complete layman maybe the next step could be a combination of the imitative systems they describe with what they've got going now. Just because dancers move with the music as well as with the movements of other people in the room and of the musicians.
posted by yoHighness at 5:26 AM on July 6, 2016

is there no video?
posted by rebent at 5:31 AM on July 6, 2016

Those procedural dancing bears from Twitter.
posted by parudox at 6:12 AM on July 6, 2016 [4 favorites]

Where's Procedural Simon Smith?
posted by Faint of Butt at 7:48 AM on July 6, 2016

there is no video because there is no robot, this is a concept paper
posted by Kutsuwamushi at 9:28 AM on July 6, 2016

Okay how many comments in before someone made a robot joke?
posted by thsmchnekllsfascists at 12:06 PM on July 6, 2016

not roboticist
posted by grobstein at 9:28 AM on July 8, 2016