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robot dancing

British  

noun

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

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“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 • Jan. 6, 2023

George Galloway appeared on the series in 2006 when he was an MP, memorably pretending to be a cat licking cream from Rula Lenska's hands and robot dancing in a leotard with Pete Burns.

From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2011

"Watching the IBOT, we used to say, 'Look at that light, graceful robot, dancing up the stairs'--so we started referring to it as Fred Upstairs, after Fred Astaire," Kamen recalls.

From Time Magazine Archive

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