Google engineer Carsten Avenhaus outfitted these Android figures with mechanical parts and programmed them to dance. They are called "balloon riders" because they have been to space on a weather balloon.
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Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is the former executive producer and general manager of Atlantic Studios at The Atlantic.