Music playing robots

Posted by on June 25, 2006, 12:05 pm

If you search Google for "Music playing robot", suprisingly you'll see that
there are not many music playing robots around and most of the references
are relatively old.

Do you know any (retalively recent) work on "Music playing robot" ?

Thanks

Posted by steamer on June 25, 2006, 12:52 pm

--What did you have in mind; i.e. something with "fingers" to play
an actual "human" instrument?

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Posted by Gordon McComb on June 25, 2006, 3:04 pm

Sam wrote:

>
> If you search Google for "Music playing robot", suprisingly you'll see that
> there are not many music playing robots around and most of the references
> are relatively old.
>
> Do you know any (retalively recent) work on "Music playing robot" ?

Depends on what you want to consider a "robot." Mechanical devices that
play real instruments have been around for more than a century. Most are
in museums and a few are on road shows. They require a lot of
maintenance.

I wonder if the lack of robot-looking muscians has more to do with this
being an overall old idea, rather than it being mechanically
challenging. But when people demonstrate them they do seem to get
airplay, and some are modern wonders of mechanical art design.

Among the more better-known recent entries (this century) is LEMUR,
which you can read about here:

http://www.lemurbots.org/

These don't always look like "robots," but they are, just the same. As
art I find them stunning. If I ever won the lottery this is what I'd do
to pass the time.

-- Gordon

Posted by Don McKenzie on June 25, 2006, 6:00 pm

Sam wrote:

> If you search Google for "Music playing robot", suprisingly you'll see that
> there are not many music playing robots around and most of the references
> are relatively old.
>
> Do you know any (retalively recent) work on "Music playing robot" ?
>
> Thanks

I did a kit a few years ago:
http://www.dontronics.com/pipex.html
ran off a PC printer port
now obsolete.

customers came up with a large variety of applications, and this one
just happened to play a piano:
http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/rp3h/piano.html

could do the same thing today with a USB port I'm sure.

Don...

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Posted by Uno on June 26, 2006, 2:36 am

I found a DVD at Fry's store. It displays the detail of robots played music
in action. I double that those robotics played the music. Human recorded the
music and robots displayed the action on screen.

<Sam> wrote in message
> If you search Google for "Music playing robot", suprisingly you'll see
> that there are not many music playing robots around and most of the
> references are relatively old.
> Do you know any (retalively recent) work on "Music playing robot" ?
> Thanks
>

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