Years of Poems and Spirits

While researching at work, I ran into this “balletbot” story on Gizmodo. Later, I found the same video on YouTube:

There is something very unnerving but I haven’t figured out what it is yet.

Obviously, there are quite a few mismatches:
1. The elder Japanese dancer dressed in kimono in the background vs. the ageless non-Asian-male-figured (square shoulder and long limbs) machine
2. The well-manicured (I suppose) and well-covered dancer vs. the metalic and naked robot
3. The robot stands with knees bent–reminded me of apes

But they are not quite “it” … I mean I’d be OK if the robot boxes or shoots a rifle since there is this “mechanicality” in both humanly activities. But to dance? Man, the half-baked “gracefulness” is just so wrong!

Yet I am still not sure whether that is “it”.

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