Tons of world records are being set at the Olympics in Rio right now, but over in China a different kind of record is being set. At the Qingdao Beer Festival – AKA “Asian Oktoberfest” – a group of more than 1,000 robots danced in unison for a full 60 seconds in order to set a Guinness World Record for Simultaneously Dancing Robots. Since the Guinness Book of World Records originated from the same Guinness organization that brews beer, it’s a fun bit of symmetry that the record was set at a beer festival.
This army of dancing robots can either be viewed as a fun endeavor that is highly impressive considering the synchronicity required and the fun dance moves happening, or as the beginning of the end of the human race which is on the verge of being brought down by the dancing abilities of an army of less-than-two-feet-tall electronic beings. While it’s true that these robots are only about calf height, the camera angle of the official video makes them look much taller. It’s almost as if we are being prepared for an army 10 times the size of these adorable little dancers that will take to the streets as dancing totalitarian androids.
A few of the robots lost their balance and fell over during the performance, so if they do organize and start to turn against their makers at least we know it’s possible to stop them by throwing off their equilibrium with some complicated dance moves.
(via Gizmodo)