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Musical Robots Invade Juilliard

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-cruel-thing-to-say dept.

roboRob writes "RoboRecital, a recent concert at the Juilliard School, featured four robot performers: GuitarBot, a self-playing guitar; an automated fifty-seven rank pipe organ; a Yamaha Disklavier, a modern player piano; and ModBots, a collection of robotic percussion instruments. This New York Times article and it this Juilliard Journal article discuss it." This beats the band-in-a-box automaton at Wall Drug by a fair stretch.

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  1. Some assembly required. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    q: How does a robot get to carnagie hall?

    A: Assembly, assembly, assembly.

  2. In related news.... by Skidge · · Score: 2, Funny

    Following the concert, the robots met up and started a Styx cover band.

  3. Douglas Adams predicted this by kiore · · Score: 4, Funny
    http://hhgproject.org/entries/shareandenjoy.html

    'At these times of special celebration a choir of over two million robots sing the company song "Share and Enjoy". Unfortunately - again - another of the computing errors for which the company is justly famous means that the robot's voices are exactly a flattened fifth out of tune and the result sounds something like this, only slightly worse.'

  4. Multiple Points of Failure by kurosawdust · · Score: 2, Funny

    The best part about this GuitarBot thing is that if it totally malfunctions and bursts into flame while on stage, people will just think it's part of the act.

  5. When I saw this... by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 2, Funny

    I immediatly thought of this video

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    Technoli