High-Tech 'Dream Robots' Dance for Beck

(andPOP) - Humans aren?t the only ones who can?t resist Beck?s music.

In the singer-songwriter?s video for ?Hell Yes,? the world?s only ?dream robots? do a synchronized dance routine to his new single.

Called QRIOs, they are currently the only four working robots of their kind in the world and were developed by Sony Japan as high-tech playthings for children.

The QRIO can carry on conversations, adapt to a variety of environments and mimic human movements, including complex dance routines.

?They're not due for three or four years, but we were able to get them for the video thanks to the good people of Sony Japan,? director Garth Jennings told MTV.

?They have such an unbelievably fluid range of motions, so Beck and I just had to work out an elaborately choreographed number for them. I think it took the programmers in Japan about three weeks to program the routine into each robot.?

According to Jennings, who also directed this year?s big-screen adaptation of Douglas Adams' ?The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy,? Beck had been mulling over the video treatment for more than a year, but it took quite a bit of wrangling to actually land the robots.

?They ended up bringing the robots to us, and we shot them in one afternoon in Los Angeles,? Jennings said. ?Most of the people who have seen the video come away thinking that there's no way the QRIOs are real. They think they're like people in robot suits or something.?

The robots, who are just under two feet tall, perform the dance routine in front of what appears to be a room full of reporters. Beck himself appears briefly in the video, floating as a ghostly hologram above the QRIOs, according to MTV.

In other Beck news, Billboard.com reports that the artist is set to perform at VH1?s Big in ?05 Awards, along with Def Leppard and INXS.

The show, hosted by comedian D.L. Hughley, will premiere Dec. 4 on the music network.