robot dancing

British  

noun

1. a dance of the 1980s characterized by jerky mechanical movements

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Example Sentences

“A couple seconds of a robot dancing requires hundreds of hours of engineering,” Skybetter said, and when we see it, “I think we register, on some level, that complexity.”

From New York Times

Kaitlyn: To me, this video is special because it looks like it cost more money than I will ever even be able to conceive of in my life, and what we got in exchange was several long minutes of Justin Timberlake and a robot dancing to a song that sounds like the Disney Channel TV movie version of Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

From The Verge

More often that not the demo, when it finally does work, is of - you've guessed it - a robot dancing.

From BBC

Either a footballer's brain was always there, or one has been incubated, as witnessed by last season's link‑ups with Robin van Persie and by the rampant improvement in his finishing, which apparently isn't an instinct after all but can be learned, even if Walcott's finishing retains a peculiar mechanical fluidity, a wonderfully convincing Thierry Henry impression that still leaves a sense of vague unease, like watching a robot dancing expertly to disco music.

From The Guardian

"I got how many minutes left?" she complains, having forgotten she wasted precious stage time on a histrionic warble of the Lord's Prayer and some robot dancing.

From The Guardian