TOKYO (REUTERS) - With their stadium devoid of fans due to coronavirus restrictions, Japanese baseball team Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks have come up with an imaginative replacement: dancing robots.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TOKYO - With their stadium devoid of fans due to coronavirus restrictions, Japanese baseball team Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks have come up with an imaginative replacement: dancing robots.
Before their most recent Nippon Professional Baseball game against Rakuten Eagles on Tuesday , over 20 robots danced to the team's fight song on a podium in the otherwise empty stand. Two different robots, including SoftBank's humaniod robot 'Pepper' and others on four legs like a dog, stamped and shimmied in a choreographed dance that is usually performed by the Hawks' fans before games in the 40,000-capacity Fukuoka Dome.Fans on social media had mixed reactions.
"I think this is like a dystopia," wrote one Twitter user. Another called the performance"insanely beautiful".The NPB season began three months late on June 19 due to the coronavirus pandemic and currently no supporters are allowed to attend games. However, from Friday, up to 5,000 fans will be allowed to attend professional baseball and football games in Japan due to an easing of restrictions.
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