Rui Penha’s Robotic Gamelan is part of a “robotic percussion” roundup over at Create Digital Music. (yeah, I’m still catching up on blogs from the holidays, so what?)
The mallets are really gorgeous (are they typical gamelan equipment, just fastened to mechanical actuators? I’m not familiar enough with gamelan music to know). Also amazing are basically all the other robots in the roundup, so you should click over there.
(I reserve the right to plunder that roundup for future posts, because it is so awesome.)
(via Create Digital Music)
Robots! Watch a dapper robot man play the flute with his friend, a, um, shoe-shine bench that plays the saxophone?
(Clearly the hat is important for ideal flute-playing.)
You can read more or see another video, too.
(via John)
reblogged from solarflares
Robot that can play Rock Band on the iPhone.
As an anonymous Boing Boing commenter noted: “no robot can simulate all the grunting and sweating.”
Yup.
(via Boing Boing)
A robot that plays an electric organ. Couldn’t not blog this.
(Also, there are EVEN MORE musical/vocal/emotional robots at the via link below. You have to see the mouths!)
(via Music Machinery)
There is more than one way to automatically play a piano.
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