Robot Dance-Off: Dancing Robots Compete At Japan Expo (VIDEO)

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The ROBO-ONE GATE competition at Tokyo's International Robot Exhibition featured an unusual kind of competition: a robot dance-off.

Biped robots hopped, shimmied, and jammed to pop songs (including Michael Jackson's "Thriller"), as well as traditional Japanese tunes.

Watch the robotic competitors strut their stuff in the videos below, which feature a Kimono-clad robot doing a fan dance, a break-dancing robot, and a life-size humanoid 'bot.

First place went to Ryuki II, dancing to the song "Joyful, Ikimonogakari," and Black Tiger Neo, performing to "Thriller," won second.

See the winning robots in the videos below, and check out amazing pictures of more robots at the International Robot Exhibition here.

Ryuki II

First Place Winner

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[PlayTOE]

08:13 AM on 12/02/2009

How soon can it be till a robot shows up on "Dancing with the stars"
and will we all watch in total fascination, or out of morbid curiosity?

[LeftLeanWing]

10:05 PM on 12/01/2009

In 10 years they'll have fully functioning Pleasure Units.

[DessLoch]

03:48 AM on 12/02/2009

Don't you mean you?

[gaudreau]

02:42 PM on 12/01/2009

I understand the desire to have robots do our work, but do we really need them to dance for us?

[DessLoch]

03:51 AM on 12/02/2009

Sounds like Al Gore's VP job description.

[jessicadevyn]

02:21 PM on 12/01/2009

I wish I was Japanese.

[Candw1]

01:37 PM on 12/01/2009

One day not far away we will be a world of droids...........not a day I want to live to see.