Next up for AI? Dancing robots | Catie Cuan
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🗓️ 1 July 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Would you tango with a robot? Inviting us into the fascinating world of dancing machines, robot choreographer Catie Cuan highlights why teaching robots to move with grace, intention and emotion is essential to creating AI-powered machines we will want to welcome into our daily lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | You're listening to Ted Talks daily, |
| 0:11.0 | where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host Elise Hugh. |
| 0:17.0 | Choreographer Katie Kwan spends her days teaching students how to dance. |
| 0:21.0 | But her students aren't your average dancers. In fact, they aren't even human. |
| 0:26.9 | In her talk, she makes the case for why we need to teach robots how to dance after the break. |
| 0:33.2 | Imagine this. In 2030, the CFO of a Fortune 100 company is a bot. |
| 0:40.8 | I'm Paul Michaelman and on Imagine This will be exploring possible futures and the |
| 0:45.5 | implications they hold for organizations. Joining me will be BCG's top experts as well |
| 0:51.0 | as my co-host Jean, BCG's conversational Gen AI agent. |
| 0:54.9 | Blending human creativity with AI innovation, |
| 0:57.9 | this podcast promises an unmatched listening journey. |
| 1:01.6 | Join us on Imagine This from BCG. |
| 1:05.7 | And now our TED Talk of the day. |
| 1:09.0 | I have an unusual job. |
| 1:10.9 | I teach robots how to dance. In 2017 I transition from dancing on stages with humans |
| 1:19.8 | to dancing with robots. |
| 1:28.1 | Big robots, small robots, single arms, and roving robots. Robots that fly, vacuuming robots, |
| 1:30.8 | a lot of robots that look like humans, |
| 1:33.0 | and a whole bunch that don't. |
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