Hexapods and robot dance competition

Okay, now for something lighthearted. Here is a video clip of the best of the Austrian Hexpod Dance competition at Hagenberg Technical College (Upper Austria University of Applied Science). The competition is part of a course in hardware/software of system engineering (HSSE).

A hexpod is, of course, something with six legs. Hexpods can have their six legs configured is various ways, and in fact our Aqua swimming robot is also a hexpod, but quite different from the ones in this video. This dance competition doesn't have that much to do with brand-new science and puts a high premium on decorations, but getting the robots to do this is still no mean feat. As far as I know, there is a locally-developed standard base hardware platform provided to all teams. Programming the control is no-doubt difficult. I believe they are programmed in C and controlled by an Atmel AVR microprocessor.