Quick Video Post – Beck

Gotta love Beck. This track is catchy and melodic, word-salad lyrics over beats. Silly grin stuff. There’s even a harmonica in there.

There are a couple of things worth looking out for in this video. The first is the little girl in the front row, who really can’t believe her eyes. The second is the Sony Qrios themselves – the robot’s body automatically moves to balance itself; as its arm moves one way, its hips move the other (if you push a Qrio, it will take a step backwards and rebalance itself). Much of the “dancing” seems to flow from this automatic behaviour. Qrio is what Robosapien wants to be when it grows up.

There’s a WMV of the robots doing a very similar dance (presumably the original choreography that the Beck video was hacked up into) here (6Mb).