At least that’s what I thought after I finished reading this tweet post by one of prominent American “celebrity”, Tony Dyson (the man who invented R2D2).

Robots are showing off their best dance groves they’ve ever done in front of the live audience!! Apparently, it’s part of Sony’s showcase to inform the public how incredibly “talented” robots can be if you train them to dance just like back-up Britney dancers would do. ^^

Have a look!

Source: TonyDyson.com, Youtube.com

I was supposed to blog post this yesterday. However, had experienced major problems with my internet broadband due to an major outage around my neighbourhood, so had to leave it till now.

After reading off this Danny Choo’s newsfeed, it worries me for a long while now that Japan’s having one of the lowest birthrates in the world means they’re going to be ‘wiped’ off from this side of the planet, if the government doesn’t do something about it, at this level of urgency. And one of their proposed solution was to manufacture more robots.

Is this right? Is this way forward for Japan’s future of saving its dying population?

Here’s the Youtube documentary video link below to give you a better idea what’s being said…

Source: DannyChoo.com

Just wanna add further on with this.

After watching the game show video footage, I must say they really know how to throw all the big ‘fireworks’ of all the best games many Japanese video game vendors made ie Square Enix, Koei, Capcom etc, etc. And it’s got a really nice music that blends well with the compilation of the video.

Very nice.

And, towards the last 10 seconds of that video, you will see some giant tank-like robots that come out, pulling out all all the relentless attacks on the enemy battalion, and lots of missiles being launched to target enemy aircrafts. The game is called Front Mission Evolved. It’s said it’s also a RPG-type game that robots can level up, just like your other ordinary Final Fantasy game series. Looks very solid.

To find out more, go to this web link, Frontmissionevolved.com

Before wrapping things up on this post, I’m going to have to distract you for the moment before you’re done with this…

I just took a glimpse at one of the related Japan’s convention centre video footage, and this one takes us to a special event (held in last August) which showcased robot scientists and engineers made dancing robots getting their grooves on!

Dancing robots!!! Wow! Have a look and be amazed by their ‘acrobatic’ dance moves!

NB: I know it’s gonna a long seven minute wait before you’ll see the ‘goods’. So hope you do have a decent internet broadband at home. Otherwise, it’s just worth the wait to see several hilarious dance moves by these cute mechs! ;)

Source: Youtube.com, Networkworld.com

Artist's impression on Robotland to be constructed in Incheon and Masan, South Korea

This is very interesting…

I decided to keep myself a little abreast about these recent developments with Koreans wanting to have more giant robot presence around the country and why they’re interested in doing this.

After two minutes of googling ‘South Korea giant robots‘, I found myself a couple of links from Slashdot and Robot World News to read.  Apparently, South Korea’s Ministry of  Knowledge Economy had this topic in discussion for almost two years.  And they were willing to spending a couple of billions of dollars into their robotics industry as part of their long-term strategy to encourage people of South Korea make excellent use of robotics technology in their daily.  One of the arguments for this support is robots are meant to simplify so many labourious tasks people face so often such as cleaning your house and lawnmowing your back garden.  Or (my favourite) pick up your beer bottles from the fridge and open them for you! :)

But in all seriousness,  here’s what they said further about their ambitious plans with robot friends in this article.

Call it WestWorld Lives! South Korea officials today said they hope to build two robot theme parks for $1.6 billion by 2013.

On the Korea.com Web site officials said they consider robotics to be one of South Korea’s key growth industries, emphasizing “service robots” that can clean homes and offer up entertainment. The robotics industry has grown about 40% a year since 2003, officials said.

The robot theme parks will be built in Incheon, and Masan, about 250 miles apart, officials said. The parks will feature a number of attractions that let visitors interact with robots and test new products. “The two cities will be developed as meccas for the country’s robot industry, while having amusement park areas, exhibition halls and stadiums where robots can compete in various events,” the ministry said.

Developing such theme parks are not big surprise as South Korea loves its robots. Earlier this year the government of South Korea said it was drawing up a code of ethics to prevent human abuse of robots-and vice versa.

The so-called Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for robotics users and manufacturers, as well as guidelines on ethical standards to be programmed into robots, according to South Korea’s Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy Perhaps there is a need for all this as the country’s Ministry of Information and Communication is working on plans to put a robot in every South Korean household by 2020. The new charter is part of an effort to establish ground rules for human interaction with robots in the future.

All of this naturally follows the news last week that at least one researcher is predicting that humans will be marrying robots by the year 2050 because of dramatic advances in the machines.

Source: Networkworld.com via Google Search

Looks like Japan’s got another competitor running for their public’s money to have the best robot theme show in town…

Source: Slashdot.org, Robot World News