Dancing Robot

I have always been interested on seeing how I could use a servo in one of my projects. Whilst researching this I came across this robots which uses a number of servos to "dance"

In one of my other posts as well a servo is used to open a door. At the moment I still like the idea of the touch light on the wall, but am still looking for something else where I could use a servo.

Anyway here is the video,



I tried researching more to see where this robot came from, but the only place where it leads back to is a YouTube page with the following information text,

Schüler der HTL-Saalfelden siegte auf der Österreicheschen Meisterschaft!!!

Which roughly translates into,

Student of HTL steals the show at the Austrian championships.

After researching some more I ended up with finding the schools website, Höheren Technische Lehranstalt in Austria, and it seems to be a competition they hold each year with a so called "Dancing hexabot" they have a page which highlights the 2007 event but not yet for 2008,

HTL - Hexarobot

Conclusion

Definitely interesting to see how they use these servos to create a "Dancing Hexarobot" more interestingly for me is how they would get the servos to synchronise so perfectly and execute these quite sophisticated movements.

This definitely gave me more inspiration into finding a good use for a Servo based project, but still I have been unable to come up with a strong idea.