Japanese baseball team Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks have come up with an imaginative replacement for fans to keep players enthused during the game - dancing robots, as reported by Tokyo Reuters.
More than 20 robots danced to the team’s fight song in the stands before their most recent Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) game against Rakuten Eagles.
Two different robots, including SoftBank’s humaniod robot ‘Pepper’ and others on four legs like a dog, stamped and shimmied in a choreographed dance with some wearing Hawks caps and others were waving flags.
The cheers seem to have worked as the Hawks won 4-3, defending their 2019 NPB title. The NPB season began three months late on June 19 due to the pandemic.
