The TED YouTube channel has long been a source of remarkable finds for this blog, but I’m not sure I’ve ever loved one more than I do this.
I don’t want to tell you what to expect; I just want you to watch this performance by Taiwanese dancer/inventor Huang Yi and KUKA. And I recommend you watch it fullscreen. You won’t want to miss a thing.
“May this romance unite both man and machine, so that our two houses may finally know peace, and that no blood nor motorfluid be spilled from this day forth.” YouTube commenter Some Dude
You can follow Huang Yi on his website.
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May 14, 2018 at 12:34 pm
I don’t actually know what to write in response to this. It is so beyond my frame of reference that I don’t have the vocabulary. I have simply never seen anything like this before. I am just in awe at how limitless the human imagination and impulse for creativity is.
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May 14, 2018 at 5:20 pm
That’s really where I came out, too, except that I also spent a fair amount of time trying to guess whether a machine’s movements inspired the dancer or the dancer designed the machine to match him.
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May 14, 2018 at 5:24 pm
I wondered that too and plumped for the former since the machine probably had a more limited range of movements whatever its design capabilities. I obviously could very well be wrong though.
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May 14, 2018 at 9:54 pm
Either way, I found it chillingly beautiful.
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May 15, 2018 at 11:18 am
WOW! (I love Ted talks, so much to learn from these talks.)
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May 15, 2018 at 2:22 pm
I know what you mean!
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May 17, 2018 at 5:40 pm
This is truly awesome!!
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May 18, 2018 at 12:24 am
I was really blown away, too!
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