Just when they figured out that synths weren’t going to kill the demand for traditional musicians, now musicians have to worry about getting replaced by robots. Toyota’s new personal robot is a 152-centimeters (5-foot) tall two-legged robot capable of playing violin. It makes use of its mechanical fingers to push the strings and plays the… Read More Forget Synths – Robots To Replace Musicians Now
The Future Music Lab at the University of Plymouth, UK, has some pretty freaky projects, (see dude plays the piano with his brain.) This one has us scratching our heads, though. It’s a demo movie on the robotic evolution of music: [display_podcast] That’s all cool – but how long until their evolved enough to cover… Read More Bizarre Robo-Music
Here’s a video from the Robotmakers that features some hardcore robot-patching modular synth action: According to the Robotmakers, “”Building a Robot” is the result of a long evolutionary process that resulted in successive generations of forms, some of which we call music. Natural selection and repeated lethal mutations winnowed the results. We are left with… Read More Robots Play Modular Synthesizers
Chris has been working on his animatronic programming and guess what – the Chuck-E-Cheese robots now do gangsta rap. Check out their cover of Ms. New Booty: Here’s a little background on what goes into these stupidtacular animatronic shows:
The Roomba family was out caroling: This was a demo of RoombaMidi2, a Mac OS X program to turn your Roomba into a MIDI instrument. via Make
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Captured! By Robots is one of the stranger bands in history. It is a one-man band, which is fairly rare these days. Jay Vance plays and sings, in shackles, a sort of pop sideshow metal. But what truly makes the band unusual is that he has robots accompany him on drums and guitar. According to… Read More Captured By Robots
