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Japanese baseball team introduces imaginative fans: dancing robots
- Wednesday | 8th July, 2020
TOKYO (Reuters) – With their stadium devoid of fans due to coronavirus restrictions, Japanese baseball team Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks have come up with an imaginative replacement: dancing robots. Before their most recent Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) game against Rakuten Eagles on Tuesday, over 20 robots danced to the team’s fight song on a podium in the otherwise empty stand. Some of the robots wore Hawks caps and waved flags supporting the team. Another called the performance “insanely beautiful.”Boosted by the supportive robots, the Hawks won 4-3 as they look to defend their 2019 NPB title. However, from Friday, up to 5,000 fans will be allowed to attend professional baseball and soccer games in Japan due to an easing of restrictions.
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