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Un danseur de rue chinois emmène ses humanoïdes Unitree en finale d'« America's Got Talent »
Chinese dancer Wu Yufei and his troupe of humanoid robots built by Unitree have qualified for the final of “America's Got Talent” in Pasadena, California, AFP reports in an article carried by TechXplore.
Wu Yufei, 27, from Sichuan, has reached the final of the American show “America's Got Talent” with unusual partners: dancing robots. He had hoped to get onto that stage for years.
His partners are humanoids made by the Chinese manufacturer Unitree. After months of rehearsals, the dancer says he feels “a kind of team spirit” with them, according to remarks gathered by AFP.
Making a robot dance takes patience. A 30-second routine can require days, sometimes weeks of fine-tuning, says Liu Zhiquan of the motion capture company BridgeDP.
The robots have their limits: unlike humans, they cannot improvise if the music changes suddenly, Wu Yufei points out.
Their strength, he says, is how fast they learn: every robot in the troupe can learn the same thing at the same time, which the dancer finds “quite terrifying”.
Source
- TechXplore (Robotics) · techxplore.com
