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\n\"The robot\", for a mechanical dance, is surprisingly flexible. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more Subscribe to our channel! Many thanks to the YouTubers for sharing their dancing footage. Check out their channels...\n\"The robot\", for a mechanical dance, is surprisingly flexible. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more Subscribe to our channel! Many thanks to the YouTubers for sharing their dancing footage. Check out their channels here: Adrian Brambila // Marquese Scott // Chadd Smith // Robot RyRy // Video by Gina Barton and Phil Edwards “The robot” is one of the world’s most recognizable novelty dances. Its distinctive popping and locking motions are simple enough concepts in themselves but the origins of the robot are little less straightforward. The word robot was first used in the 1921 play Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum’s Universal Robots). There was a time the dance wasn’t set to music and it was part of a mime. Robert Shields included this robot mime his routine in the late 60s. This novelty act caught the eye of Charles Washington, many other performers, including the Jackson 5. From there, the robot solidified its mechanical but flexible movements in dancing history. Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out to get up to speed on everything from Kurdistan to the Kim Kardashian app. Check out our full video catalog Follow Vox on Twitter Or on Facebook\n
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9th - 11th
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