Engineering Gangnam style

Sylvie Barak

10/26/2012 1:05 AM EDT

Gagnam Style, the Korean Pop sensation taking the world by storm, has moved its catchy beat up to the next level. Artificial intelligence dancing robot style.

Yes, folks, we seem to be swinging our way into the singularity, as CHARLI the humanoid robot demonstrates in a YouTube video, bopping away to the beat, more convincingly, some would argue, than most average human club-goers.

The CHARLI robot series was developed as a research platform at Virginia Tech’s Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory (RoMeLa) to study bipedal walking and autonomous behaviors, with an emphasis on studying novel mobile robot locomotion strategies. And the locomotion it does! K-Pop style.