Dancing Robot to Preserve Japan's Folk Arts

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Comments

[gwinna]

Neat article! But could you shrink the image a bit? :)

[1punky4u]

that is one thing robots can be a great use for: storing cultural dance/ rituals/ language/ etc...

of course serving tea/coffee is nice too!

[rantipole6]

Awesome.

[min0taur]

It also (rather neatly) raises a classic question I remember from grad studies in folklore: If a tradition's texts are preserved after its original context has faded and its remaining practitioners die, has the tradition actually been preserved, or has it become something else (in which case, what exactly has it become

[thorny_rose]

*cough*old news!*wheeze* But it is an interesting idea. I'm skeptical it could do the Lion Dance, tho....