Human beings are principally efficient at synchronizing and predicting within a swiftly
altering realtime environment. For instance, various activities that involve harmonized …

This paper presents a platform for rhythmic flight with multiple quadrocopters. We envision
an expressive multi-media dance performance that is automatically composed and …

Musicians often have the following problem: they have a music score that requires 2 or more
players, but they have no one with whom to practice. So far, score-playing music robots …

This paper presents an audio-visual beat-tracking method for an entertainment robot that
can dance in synchronization with music and human dancers. Conventional music robots …

A robot with the ability to dance autonomously has many potential applications, such as
serving as a prototype dancer for choreographers or as a participant in stage performances …

Dance movement is intrinsically connected to the rhythm of music and is a fundamental form
of nonverbal communication present in daily human interactions. In order to enable robots to …

This paper presents an audio-visual beat-tracking method for ensemble robots with a human
guitarist. Beat-tracking, or estimation of tempo and beat times of music, is critical to the high …

As research in biped gait, human interaction, and social robotics expands, hardware to
explore these fields is becoming valuable. The high cost and risk of full-sized humanoid …

Hand-clapping games and other forms of rhythmic social-physical interaction might help
foster human-robot teamwork, but the design of such interactions has scarcely been …

Future robots for everyday human environments will need to be capable of physical
collaboration and play. We previously designed a robotic system for constant-tempo human …