Robot Dance

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Author

06/14/2012 Added

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UNL computer science engineering students and dance students from UNL's School of Music work with the world-famous dance company, Pilobolus, to choreograph original dance routines with flying robots.

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[00:00:01.639]Announcer: In this Nebraska profile, learn why a world famous dance company collaborates with University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering students.
[00:00:11.145]The contemporary dance company, Pilobolus, specializes in topsy-turvy entanglements.
[00:00:18.034]Dancer: One, two, three...
[00:00:21.645]Announcer: Now, Pilobolus is pushing more than the human body - they're pushing robotic engineering.
[00:00:27.232]Matt Del Rosario: It was an experiment. It was to see: one - how we can collaborate outside of dance, and also to see what the possibilities of movement are.
[00:00:36.013]Prof. Detweiler: It takes some learning, for sure. A few batteries worth, you can be an OK pilot.
[00:00:42.297]Announcer: UNL engineering professor Carrick Detweiler helped create dancing robots for Pilobolus.
[00:00:49.196]Prof. Levine: He contacted me, said "Have you ever heard of Pilobolus?" I fell on the floor, said "Of course."
[00:00:53.825]And he said, "Do you think we can bring them? Do you think we could do this?"
[00:00:56.246]We contacted the Lied Center. And all of a sudden, we have this beautiful, unbelievably unusual collaboration.
[00:01:02.546]Announcer: Dance students choreograph original works using the robots that are designed and piloted by engineering students.
[00:01:09.561]Alexander Harvey: In engineering, we live in such a objective world - ones and zeros, true and false. This more of a subjective experience.
[00:01:17.429](dance music)
[00:01:23.380]Jessica Bear: I'm not worried about the dancers; I know that we all know what we're doing.
[00:01:28.027]But, there are definitely times when we have to improv a lot because we don't know what the robots are going to do.
[00:01:32.661](crash and laughter)
[00:01:35.439]Prof. Detweiler: These are really hard problems from the scientific and research side.
[00:01:41.998]You know - how do you have these vehicles interacting closely with dancers? We've been expecting robots in our lives for a long time, and they're not quite there yet.
[00:01:50.646]But we're getting there.
[00:01:53.096](cheering and applause)

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