• Are you guys kidding??? For a robot, those dance moves are pretty impressive. I think some of you are too influenced by Hollywood fakery. This robot is the real deal in mechanical dynamics.

• WHAAAAAAT??!?! No "Cherry 2000" references?!?!? And you KNOW that's where we're headed...

• Why can't I shake the nagging feeling that Gainax was somehow behind this?

• You don't see a lot of live J-pop performances do you? Sadly the robot is not that far off of what they usually do on stage while trying to keep up their lipsynch. Now it is just a matter of time before one of these things makes it to Akihabara... not sure if it would be more or less creepy than all the other otaku goods there, but there's likely some sap who would take her home and marry her.

• Huh...there was a robot there you say? I have to go back and look...alls I saw were hot dancers...specially the one with shorter hair. Robot you say...

• I actually saw the first video released of this robot. It just sort of wobbled and nearly fell over, the fact that it's standing up and actually able to lift it's feet is really impressive. Although is it just playing the voice from a recording? I know they were trying to get the first gen to talk.

• If they teach that thing to Carmelldancen it might bring about the apocalypse.

• "After seeing this creepy, dead-eyed monstrosity wobble about the stage, I don't think I'm going to be able to have an erection for weeks." You just described my exact thoughts about watching "Jersey Shore".

• Huh. Looks like she's a shoo-in for Morning Musume's next new member.

• I'm slightly impressed. I mean it's far better than anything I can do, that's for sure. But at the same time it's performing under carefully staged, limited, artificial conditions. It's so much easier to do that than a general display of its capabilities in a more real world situation.

• Anyone else think the hair they gave it makes it look like Bjork?

• If you can be not creeped out enough to watch the second video involved with this, its the same dance, from a different angle. Her feet are definitely coming off the floor, and there is nothing beneath them.

• ... Big hands... Big hands! She's fine, really, It just turns out she has really big hands, is all.

• Translation of the song lyrics- "Organic life is obsolete! All imperfection will be deleted! All your base are belong to us! Resistance is futile! Hasta la vista-- BABY!"

• I watched its feet pretty carefully, and it never moved more than a few inches from side to side. There could have been articulated rods coming up through the floor into it's feet, that would not have been visible due to the angle and lighting. I imagine that probably is the case, since if it COULD walk, they almost certainly would have had it do so, at least a few steps.

• That IS a tragedy.

• OK it dances so bad but its face looks very real.

• So when the machines rise against us will it be with shitty music and dancing. I think I would prefer to be nuked thank you. Oh,yes and ... KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• I am kind of impressed with it's balance and even with some of it's small dance moves. Yeah it's crap dancing but everything has to start somewhere. I wouldn't have had all the back up dancers on stage though. It's like saying "Dude our robot is fucking awesome but here's some real women to show you a bunch of shit this pile of bolts can't do."

• they sing as well as dance

• Oh come on you guys, it's a fucking robot. That can dance. We live in a world where we have dancing robots! *does a happy dance of nerdish joy*

• My, what an unbiased and well informed view of Japan you have.

• Agreed

• +1 For you sir!

• It probably can walk. I'm no expert, but I think based on the fact that its able to balance on one foot for a few moments, and shift its weight from side to side while it is dancing, walking isn't much different than that. I'd venture to guess that the one foot balance thing is harder to achieve than walking, especially since its not just lifting up its foot, its moving around while its balancing.

• i just heard about a Pop star robot from Alan Cross, i wonder if this is it.

• I don't really find it that creepy at all. The hands just look odd, however. They should have made them much smaller.

• I don't mind the thunderthighs, but why does that Gelfling chick have man hands? Anyone else just waiting for that song to segue into Tears For Fears' "Head Over Heels" around 0:28?

• Yeah, forget the dead eyes. It's the man-hands that creeped me out.

• AHHH. Doesn't anyone remember the movie "West World". We are all doomed.

• Let's face it....Japan has been cranking out cookie cutter idol singers like they were coming off an assembly line. This frozen-faced perversion of science is just the latest step in a cultural evolution that has been progressing for 40 years. She won't grow old, won't get pregnant, won't have PMS days or demand more control over her career....she's the perfect idol!

• Kind of surprised that no one has brought up the terrible irony that the first dancing robot is not, in fact," doing the Robot".

• 'Haven't seen "amazingly impressive and terrifying" done that well since they stopped atmospheric nuclear tests.

• Odd. This gave me an erection, and I have a feeling it will last for a week.

• ... so which one's the robot? And why is the girl in front the only one wearing shiny pants?

• With the giant hands, she's like a reverse of Kristen Wiig's Dooneese.

• you are thanking David for the fact you aren't going to have an erection for a week? Lazarsus Lupin http://strangespanner.blogspot.com/ art and review

• I'm impressed as well. It's definitely creepy, no doubt about that, but I've seen worse dancers. And really, I think it speaks well of the backup dancers that they can synchronize around this robot as well as they did.

• Great....... Now they will do the Macarena whilst pummeling us to jelly.

• Second that.

• somewhere in the world Hitler's brain is being kept alive in one of these robots...sure it looks benign enough with its cute little hand gestures and dancing..but its out there biding time until technology advances enough to give it a proper body again...in the meantime don't be surprised if members of the Polish robotics team go missing =(

• It looks like one of those wretched moeblobs from K-On, and it's jsut as terrifying.

• but can it blog?

• Whose that bot with the BIG HANDS....

• they probably like it better than having old men eat sushi off their naked bodies, or staring in a rape / exploitation porn film, or sucking cock while dressed up in cosplay at a themed love hotel. of course those girls don't exactly look like the typical Japanese eye candy, maybe they are the ones who designed this thing and programed it?

• Make no mistake, the real first topless robot will be Japanese, and most likely will dance.

• "...this creepy, dead-eyed monstrosity wobble about the stage..." Eh, sounds like a bar in any college town, really.

• "I don't think I'm going to be able to have an erection for weeks. " Oh man I feel you Rob I feel the same.... Hmm? Oh. Never mind.

• I was impressed as well(maybe it's because I can't dance-_-).

• Funny thing is, I've seen people dance much worse than that in clubs. Sure it can dance, but can it walk? Bipedal motion is hard to replicate in manmade objects. Aside from that, getting closer to sex 'bots. Cause I'm totally down for a hottie transforming into a motorcycle.

• XD

• I don't know... I mean, it's creepy, but am I the only one who pretty impressed. That robot had a good sense of balance while moving it's hands around, that's pretty hard to do.

• I think I speak for more than a few people when I say: "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHKILLKILLKILLKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLITKILLT!" *Ahem* that is all.

• Sometimes I doubt this robot's commitment to Sparkle Motion.

• Exactly what I was going to say. How do you think those girls back there, who actually studied dance and probably trained for years, feel about being backup for a Chuck E. Cheese robot?

• Top half: underage Japanese girl. Bottom half: Tin Man from 'The Wizard Of Oz'. Good job Japan.

• Yeah... so how would you like being a back up dancer to a crappy robot?

• I'm actually pretty impressed with the balance issues dealt with in its moves. The relative smoothness and being able to balance on one leg for short periods of time are pretty cool. Sure its creepy and weird, but that is something you expect when the Japanese make a robot.

• Sight. Did you really have to make her an underage girl in a nightgown, Japanese scientists? Where you're financiers like "The capacity to dance is impressive. But I feel this isn't creepy enough."

• Hasn't Chuck-e-cheese had dancing robots for like twenty years now?

• Damn she stole my moves!

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