Devolution: dancing, robots, dancing robots

We've never been quite so hot with the dance moves, so it's good to know there are some synthetic replacements out there to fill the void. These little bots, a creation of  Louis-Philippe Demers, even mix it up with some carbon based lifeforms in an Australian Dance Theatre art dance production titled Devolution. There's some esoteric "men are machines, machines are organic" type of stuff going on, but we're just glad to see some robots showing a sensitive side and will leave it at that.

[Via Robot Gossip]

[liamoc Posted Feb 6th 2006 5:58PM]

Something about that picture makes me uncomfortable.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 6th 2006 6:23PM]

I, for one, welcome our new dancing robo-organic overlords!

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 6th 2006 11:50PM]

is that a homestar reference that i spy?

[Mr Hand Posted Feb 7th 2006 9:45AM]

ok.... erm.... guys... what is going on with his arms??

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 7th 2006 10:04AM]

I dont care what they come up, the dancing humanoid robot covered with silver paint in the middle of the park can out dance any robot!

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 7th 2006 12:22PM]

Had the same general queasiness for the arminess of the photo. It took me a minute but then I saw he's not standing behind a counter full of these, he's sitting on the floor "mingling" with them, and the really big, hairy, mismatched arm is actually just a big, hairy leg . . . still queasy, though.