Robots, Spot and Pepper, cheer and dance at a baseball game in Japan

13 Jul 2020

Robots, Spot and Pepper, cheer and dance at a baseball game in Japan

Robots, Spot and Pepper, cheer and dance at a baseball game in JapanDue to the COVID-19 crisis, many sports around the world are being played with no crowds. Sports leagues are instead filling stadiums with stuffed toys and cardboard cutouts to stand in for fans.

In Japan, a company called Softbank brought in robots to cheer at its team's baseball game!

You may have read a while ago, about a "robot dog" called Spot. Spot is being used in different ways to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, in Singapore, Spot is ‘patrolling’ a local park to encourage social distancing in public.

So, Spot and another robot called Pepper cheered a baseball game between the Fukuoko SoftBank Hawks and the Rakuten Eagles on 7 July.

There were around 20 of them to cheer at the game, which the Hawks won. SoftBank even built a special stage where the robots danced together!

Baseball is one of the most popular sports in Japan. It is followed by millions of people.

See a video of the robots dancing to the team's theme song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9p9jdmJQOQ&feature=emb_logo

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