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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Robot does T'ai-chi

The BHR-1 robot developed at the Beijing University of Science and Engineering under China's High and New Technology Research and Development Programme can do T'ai-chi (sorry, it doesn't say whether that's classical Yang or Wu style), which sounds a good way of demonstrating the movement of its 32 joints. It can also walk with 33cm steps at a speed of 1kph.

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