Keepon keeps on shaking his robotic yellow booty….

The article reports that a team of scientists in Japan have developed a robot that can dance to different tunes. The researchers claim that there innovation will pave the way for machines that can interact more naturally with us humans. The robot, called Keepon, has been programmed to pick out the beat in a piece of music and move in time. It is also able to track the rhythmic motion of a person or another object and move in time to that. Marek Michalowski, one of the developers of the robot, has expressed that since rhythm and synchrony form the foundations of social interactions, a robot needs to be capable of that to comfortably interact with humans.