{"id":1335245,"date":"2025-12-20T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/concerts-of-the-future-in-china-humanoid-robots-are-used-instead-of-backing-dancers\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T17:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:00:16","slug":"concerts-of-the-future-in-china-humanoid-robots-are-used-instead-of-backing-dancers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/concerts-of-the-future-in-china-humanoid-robots-are-used-instead-of-backing-dancers\/","title":{"rendered":"Concerts of the future: in China, humanoid robots are used instead of backing dancers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chinese-American singer Wang Lihom performed with several Unitree G1 humanoid robots during a concert in Chengdu. The performance went viral on the Internet and attracted the attention of fans and media around the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This is reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/robots-and-machines\/robots-stage-backup-dancers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Futurism<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> During the &#8220;Best Place Tour&#8221; concert, the robots appeared on stage during the performance of the song &#8220;Open Fire.&#8221; They were dressed in baggy pants and sparkly shirts and performed synchronized dance moves alongside human dancers.<\/p>\n<p> The show culminated in the robots&#8217; frontal somersaults, known as &#8220;Webster somersaults,&#8221; performed in near-perfect unison.<\/p>\n<p> The goal of the concert was to demonstrate how artificial intelligence and robotics can enhance artistic expression without replacing human performers. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xd6iB2tC8KY?si=Hw5AbT_l_3UpVC_W\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> &#8220;This performance was a rare example of a Robotic Dancer in concert, combining cutting-edge technology with powerful live music. As the opening beats of &#8220;Open Fire&#8221; filled the hall, robotic dancers appeared, moving in perfect synchronization with Van Leehom&#8217;s choreography,&#8221; the singer&#8217;s website says.<\/p>\n<p> A video of the speech went viral on X and Instagram. Tesla CEO Elon Musk responded with one word: &#8220;Impressive.&#8221; Fans actively shared the clips on Weibo, Instagram, and X, comparing the Chinese robotics to American projects like Tesla&#8217;s Optimus.<\/p>\n<p> Netizens left various comments: &#8220;The dancers were just replaced with AI. Look at these moves!&#8221; wrote one user.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Millennials are probably the luckiest generation to ever give birth. Every sci-fi book we&#8217;ve read comes to life in some form or another,&#8221; added another.<\/p>\n<p> Some were less impressed: &#8220;The charm and lively energy of human faces easily lift your spirits and energize you in a way that these cold, faceless humanoid robots never could,&#8221; wrote a fourth user.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese-American singer Wang Lihom performed with several Unitree G1 humanoid robots during a concert in Chengdu. The performance went viral on the Internet and attracted the attention of fans and media around the world. This is reported by Futurism . During the &#8220;Best Place Tour&#8221; concert, the robots appeared on stage during the performance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1335240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76875,76896,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1335245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news","category-techno","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1335245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1335245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1335240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1335245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1335245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}