MIT graduate student Sommer Gentry's two passions are swing dancing and the creation of complex decision systems. So, naturally, she invented a swing-dancing robot. Swing dancing, it turns out, requires a lot of subtle, improvisational communication between partners. So Gentry wrote a paper detailing how robots could be built to engage in such communication with human partners.
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MIT Student Creates Swing-Dancing Robot