Someone built a pair of robotic legs with special hips and it dances to salsa music

If you woke up today hoping to see a headless pair of robot legs dancing to Latin music, you’re in luck.

Because a bunch of experts from The University of Texas at Austin has fulfilled your strangely specific desires.

Luis Sentis and his team created Mercury, a two-legged headless robot with a cow skull chest plate who has a powerful set of hips.

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They were able to turn the human ability to maintain whole-body balance into a mathematical equation, programing Mercury with the formula.

“Essentially, we have developed a technique to teach autonomous robots how to maintain balance even when they are hit unexpectedly, or a force is applied without warning,” Sentis said in a press statement.

“This is a particularly valuable skill we as humans frequently use when navigating through large crowds.”

While others have focused on the feet for maintaining balance in walking robots, Sentis’ team looked instead at the hips.

Because it turns out that a swingin’ pair of hips is the key to moving like a human.

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The team programmed the robot to shake its hips, which keeps it stable.

They wanted to demonstrate this innovation in a video and, much to our delight, decided that having the robot shuffle to Latin music was the best way of doing so.

“This salsabot’s hips don’t lie,” the YouTube description reads.

Brilliant.