Tuesday, Aug. 04, 2009
Dancing Robots
A dance ensemble made up of robots? That's right. Sony's QRIO — "Quest for cuRIOsity" — robots combined artificial intelligence and dynamic technologies to move, gather information and dance. At 2 ft. (0.6 m) tall and 16 lb. (7 kg) apiece, QRIO was developed to be a humanoid entertainment robot. Sadly, the dancers were given the pink slip three years after being introduced in 2003.