Humanoid Robots Perform Chinese Folk Dance In Sync

Chinese company Unitree Robotics showed off the dancing skills of its humanoid H1 robots at the annual Chongwan Lunar New Year.

The video of the Unitree H1 dancing robots includes footage from rehearsals and on stage. The company claims it was “the first ever large-scale, fully AI-driven, fully automated clustered humanoid robot performance.” The dance was broadcast on Chinese television as part of an annual New Year’s program that Guinness World Records calls the most popular in the world, with nearly half a billion viewers in 2012 and double that number today.

A Unitree spokesperson said the dance routine was a pre-produced performance using data from real dancers. AI-powered full-body motion control allowed the H1s to dance in sync with each other, while lidar scanning of the environment provided feedback to make adjustments in response to unplanned events around them.

This event became “the first ever large-scale, fully AI-controlled and fully automated performance of a group of humanoid robots.