Dancing Robots - A must see!

Is it those miniature robots with those peacock-tail-like fans in their "hands"? Those are awesome to behold. Too bad toys like those cost a bajillion dollars.

This is completely unrelated, but still totally cute & bloody: The Little Ninja Go clicky-click on the link & watch it. Awesome!
 
Wow thats cool, nice motor skillz. They dance better than most of my mates.
Is that sony's new robot?
 
The article (Japanese)

It's the SONY QRIO robot. It is a humanoid robot announced in 2000, named SDR series at that time, then an improved version was renamed to QRIO.

It is said the robot can walk at about 14 m/min. Using a pressure test bed, it is shown that the robot does not touch the ground for about 40 ms when jumping, and about 20 ms when walking. (This puzzles me, doesn't walking means that both feet never leave the ground at the same time?)
 
Isn't it the horse who always has at least two feet (are they called feet?) touching the ground if not jumping.
Or maybe not.
 
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