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Humanoid Robot Conducts Beethoven Symphony

Posted by Hemos on from the moving-forward dept.

me98411 writes "New Scientist is running a front page article about the Sony's QRIO bot [QRIO= Quest for Curiosity] successfully conducted an entire orchestra at the Tokyo Philharmonic Society. An impressive footage of the four bots performing a dance routine can be seen here [wmv format]"

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  1. The Great Maestro... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    In the not so distant future:
    "Oh swell, we'll be conducted by #011278-TY-42 again, always has to have a flair for the dramatic. Too bad old #006273-UO-88 got a virus and it addled his core, he may have had a lazy servo or two, but he was easy to follow."
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  2. Still waiting by An-Unnecessarily-Lon · · Score: 3, Funny

    On my hotsex fembot... Not that I really need one per say....

    1. Re:Still waiting by Bryan_W · · Score: 2, Funny

      You'll get your fembot. Her name is the crushinator

  3. grace by squashed · · Score: 4, Funny
    Successfully conducted?

    Right, with all the grace of a metronome.

    1. Re:grace by gkuz · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...and the warmth of von Karajan...

  4. The Three Laws of Robotics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Lets hope Sony has designed "The Three Laws of Robotics" into these little bots.

    Surely this would stop them from forming their own boy bands, or should I say Robo Bands.....

    "Back street roboz"

  5. I've seen an orchestra of robots.... by AtariAmarok · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's nothing. I've seen an entire orchestra of automatons (automata?) at "The House on the Rock" in Wisconsin. You put a quarter in a slot, and the life-size orchestra plays for a while.

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  6. That poor robot... by Saeger · · Score: 4, Funny
    With a name like "QUEERIO", that poor robot is going to get teased by all the other macho hetero bots until one day it just *snaps* and takes over the world Columbine-style. That's how it happens you know.

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  7. Three Laws of Musical Robotics by AtariAmarok · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. A robot may not injure a Beatle, or, through inaction, allow a Beatle to come to harm.

    2. A robot must obey the orders given it by roadies except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

    3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not mean playing in a rap band.

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  8. I can just imagine. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Tap

    <buffering....>

    Tap

    <buffering....>

    Tap

    <buffering....>

    and so on.

  9. Ha! by Sacarino · · Score: 5, Funny

    Those little bastards dance better than I do...

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    1. Re:Ha! by blair1q · · Score: 2, Funny

      But you'll notice, they didn't even attempt to do The Robot.

  10. Humans vrs Robots by mpcarlos · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think humans can do better "the robot" dance than QRIO can do human dance... So 1 point to humans... but in ohter hand, don't think much of us here at ./ can dance, so lets give QRIO 1 point too..

  11. Obligatory Styx Quote by The_Rippa · · Score: 5, Funny

    Domo arigato, Conductor Roboto.

  12. Damn stupid geeks by JohnGrahamCumming · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who thought of this? Don't you geeks realize that we're not getting the chicks as it is because we can't dance and then you go invent a robot that dances better than us. You know you're not going to be able to send this robot to a nightclub to pick 'em up for you.

    Jeepers.

    How about inventing a robot that beats up jocks instead?

    On the other hand I'd love to see this robot take on a Dance Dance Revolution machine.

    John.

  13. Damn Robots... by spence2680 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dance better than I do! Crap!! I'll be extra impressed when the robots can do DDR. http://www.ddrfreak.com/

  14. Damnit! by Neil+Blender · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just sent in my application to conducting school. By the time I graduate, all the conducting jobs will be outsourced to robots. Oh well, I guess we should have all seen it coming, much like what happend to assembly and manufacturing plants in the 80s.

  15. Re:if i only had a robot that could do all my work by starworks5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    i would probably be out of a job

    but at least i would have a ^^Wife(not life, but i wouldnt have that either).....

    unless an electrical appliance could give her more pleasure than i can......

    at least i would still have kids.....

    unless they found out i diddnt have a job.

    damn next thing you know were theyre going to take over the world.... everyone destroy all robots, destroy your television, DOWN WITH TECHNOLOGY... UP WITH IMCOMPENTANCE AND IMPERFECTION

  16. Hi. I'm Troy McClure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hi. I'm Troy McClure. You might remember me from such classical music meets robotics films as "The 500 Diodes of Dr T" and "Metal Maestro: The Amazing Story of Ludwig Von Boilerplate"

  17. I don't know which is more impressive by way2trivial · · Score: 4, Funny

    the video, or the fact that it still loaded for me near instantly a full 20 minutes after it was posted to slash

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  18. Question by Guppy06 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ""New Scientist is running a front page article about the Sony's QRIO bot [QRIO= Quest for Curiosity] successfully conducted an entire orchestra at the Tokyo Philharmonic Society."

    How is this different from, say, a metronome?

  19. Lawrence Welk Digitized by thirty2bit · · Score: 5, Funny

    And a 01 and a 10 and a 11....

  20. Robot Coders by Lord+of+the+Fries · · Score: 2, Funny

    So when can I get a team of these to write our company's mission critical software for me? Then I wouldn't have to pay these pesky overpaid engineers at all. They're so unpredictable.

    What I'm really looking forward to is when I can get a team of Indian made robots to write the code for me. Then it'll be predictable AND cheap.

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  21. Re:real bad application by Neil+Blender · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wasn't the whole idea of having robots to put them to work in incredibly boring and repetitive tasks

    Agreed. They should be working on robotic audience members so we don't have to sit through a symphony.

  22. Somehow by Tedium+Unleased · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think this is more of a statement about how easy a conductor's job is rather than how far robotics have progressed.