RoboCup Junior Dance

The RoboCup Junior Dance is a stunning integration of Science, Technology and the Arts. Participants program their robots to dance to music. Competitors are encouraged to decorate their entries and to motorise robot limb movements, to give their robots real personality. RoboCup Junior Dance can be approached in a number of ways with creative new ideas appearing every year. Some previous ideas have been robots dancing together in tightly choreographed teams, students interacting with their robots while they were dancing, students creating their own music to dance to and students telling a story while the robots act it out to the music. The Dance Challenge is a real team effort where students are can design their own t-shirts, prepare themselves for the team interview and create their costumes, on top of the programming and building.