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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. 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.'