Boston Dynamics "Do You Love Me?" Robot Dance Video

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Boston Dynamics "Do You Love Me?" Robot Dance Video refers to a viral video featuring several Boston Dynamics robots performing a choreographed dance to the 1962 rock and roll song "Do You Love Me" by The Contours.

Origin

On December 29th, 2020, the Boston Dynamics YouTube channel posted a video titled "Do You Love Me?" in which the Atlas and Handle model robots dance in formation to the song "Do You Love Me" (shown below). In less than 24 hours, the video gained over 470,000 views and 8,000 comments.

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That day, Matroid CEO Reza Zadeh tweeted the video along with a message stating that "dancing makes robots less intimidating" (shown below). Within two hours, the tweets received over 3,500 likes, 2,700 quote tweets and 1,200 retweets.

It's pretty awesome how dancing makes robots less intimidating. Looking forward to seeing more nontrivial Machine Learning on these robots. Credit: Boston Dynamics. pic.twitter.com/wnB2i9qhdQ
— Reza Zadeh (@Reza_Zadeh) December 29, 2020

Meanwhile, Redditor btutal submitted the video to the /r/videos^[1] subreddit, where it gained upwards of 700 points (95% upvoted) in two hours. Also on December 29th, 2020, YouTuber Marques Brownlee tweeted a GIF from the video, noting that "Working at Boston Dynamics must be part terrifying part incredibly fun" (shown below).

Working at Boston Dynamics must be part terrifying part incredibly fun 🤖

(this was shot in the same room as my video with SPOT a few weeks ago)

Full video: https://t.co/hm4KKwrGZ2 pic.twitter.com/1tt5IxvBlL
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) December 29, 2020

Additionally, Elon Musk tweeted^[5] a link to the YouTube video along with the message "This is not CGI."
That day, several news and entertainment sites posted the video, including Ebaumsworld,^[2] Gizmodo^[3] and The Verge.^[4]