I found this little guy on Youtube while surfing for videos of the chinese online game My Monkey (it's a long story). At first he looks like something that could have been sold in the toy department at Tokyo Hands, or perhaps even a really good toy department in Europe.

But after a while you notice the little subtitle changes in his dance that makes him one of the best robot dancers I've seen. He isn't a toy to be sold anywhere (yet?) but a research project.





While I'm on the subject I'll take the opportunity to make a small plea. All you humans out there: please leave robot dancing up to - the robots. For everyones sake.

How do they get so good at creating concepts in Japan? I've never really even seen the anime. But just the concept of Panda-Z makes me unable to resist buying stuff. Useless but wonderful stuff like miniature figures. Just show me a small panda that controls a giant ROBOT panda from a cockpit in the robots head - and I can't help myself apparently. I bought at least five in the series when I was in Tokyo.

And then I haven't even mentioned any of the pandas friends. There are lots of them. For instance, one that has a telephone receiver for ears. I feel a bit sorry for him.