A robot's motion is not only a path from A to B; it has style, timing, and expressiveness, the difference between a machine that moves and a character that performs. This is the field of choreorobotics, pioneered by Dr. Catie Cuan, a dancer and roboticist at Stanford whose work brings dance theory, including Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, into robot motion, and whose eight-hour duet Breathless with a robot arm explored labor and autonomy. The 2026 industry is already here: Disney's BDX droids, trained with reinforcement learning, tilt and puff their chests to read as happy or shy. The Institute pursues expressive human-robot interaction as its own research direction. Here you start with the simplest expressive act, moving in time: sync the gait so its footfalls land on the beat.