Article: Lion dance with a twist

Stephen Ng
New Straits Times
01-09-2001
Lion dance with a twist
Byline: Stephen Ng
Edition: 2*
Section: City News

IT was a lion dance but with a twist. Instead of humans, it was performed by two industrial robotic arms during Monash University's Open Day last Saturday.

The idea came about when a staff member of Monash University Malaysia watched the movements of the robotic arms and put together a creative combination of robotics and traditional Chinese lionhead gears.
The result was a robotic lion dance team powered by electronics and computer systems.

"It's like Lion King and Simba," said four-year-old Sophia Soh, who visited the engineering laboratory with her parents.

According to Prof ...

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