Dancing robots replace fans at baseball game in Japan

With their stadium devoid of supporters due to coronavirus restrictions, the Japanese baseball team Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks brought in replacement fans: dancing robots. Before their most recent Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) game against Rakuten Eagles on 7 July, more than 20 robots, some resembling humans and others on four legs like a dog, danced to the team’s fight song in the otherwise empty stand. Some of the robots wore Hawks caps and waved flags supporting the team, who won 4-3 as they look to def