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08-10-2016, 01:51 PM
China sets new world record with 1,007 dancing robots
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While Chinese athletes are over at Rio Olympics chalking up medals, members of a different species were busy setting their own world record back home in China.
During the Qingdao Beer Festival in Shandong, which took place on the weekend of July 29, the country put up a dance performance that left many in awe.
SEE ALSO: The SwagBot is an all-terrain robot that will soon be running the farm (http://mashable.com/2016/07/13/swagbot-agriculture-robot-australia/)
The dance was performed by 1,007 red and white robots and helped snag China a new Guinness World Record for "Most robots dancing simultaneously."
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The identical "QRC-2" robots each stand at 43.8 centimetres tall and were all controlled by a single mobile phone device. (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/8/video-1-007-dancing-robots-break-world-record-in-china-438473) The performance was 60 seconds long. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/10/china-dancing-robots-guiness-record/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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While Chinese athletes are over at Rio Olympics chalking up medals, members of a different species were busy setting their own world record back home in China.
During the Qingdao Beer Festival in Shandong, which took place on the weekend of July 29, the country put up a dance performance that left many in awe.
SEE ALSO: The SwagBot is an all-terrain robot that will soon be running the farm (http://mashable.com/2016/07/13/swagbot-agriculture-robot-australia/)
The dance was performed by 1,007 red and white robots and helped snag China a new Guinness World Record for "Most robots dancing simultaneously."
http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/iL147W1uRPsDyDmrF0VxzBK**J8=/fit-in/575x4096/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fima ge%2F173034%2FAP_497664007640.jpg
Image: Chen zhiwei/Imaginechina/ap
The identical "QRC-2" robots each stand at 43.8 centimetres tall and were all controlled by a single mobile phone device. (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2016/8/video-1-007-dancing-robots-break-world-record-in-china-438473) The performance was 60 seconds long. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/10/china-dancing-robots-guiness-record/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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