Researchers from the University of California, San Diego have designed an AI-enabled robot that can perform a Waltz simply by mirroring the moves of its human partner. As far as we can tell, the robot was even able to pull off the ballroom dance without stepping on its partner’s toes.

Intelligent, autonomous humanoid robots are on the horizon A German start-up has developed a humanoid robot equipped with several senses. Integrated intelligence and autonomy are the two challenges currently being taken up by humanoid robot manufacturers.

An AI trained on motion capture recordings can help robots smoothly imitate human actions, such as dancing, walking and throwing punches