Robot Violinist
Nov 11, 2008
Toyota have unveiled a new robot that can play the violin. Albeit not particularly well. The robots revolution begins!
Musical robot I built for an internship in summer 2014 at MIT Media Lab's Personal Robotics Group (PRG) for research.
a soup can percussion instrument controlled via MIDI
This was our wining entry for RedBull's creation challenge in New York.
It is a robotic, internet connected, drum set that works with hacked car door lock actuators.
Everything was designed and built in 72 hours from found and bought parts in Brooklyn.
Our team :
MB Labs - mblabs.org
Dave Hull - davidhulldesign.com
Harvey Moon - unanything.com
Bill Fienup - fienup.com
Hyuns Hong - lovot.net
Music machine at Odonien's robot festival Robodonien in 2012
Simple one fingered robot piano player using two servos and arduino.
Flying robot quadrotors perform the James Bond Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted guitar built from a couch frame. The quadrotors play this "couch guitar" by flying over guitar strings stretched across a couch frame; plucking the strings with a stiff wire attached to the base of the quadrotor. A special microphone attached to the frame records the notes made by the "couch guitar".
These flying quadrotors are completely autonomous, meaning humans are not controlling them; rather they are controlled by a computer programed with instructions to play the instruments.
Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science is home to some of the most innovative robotics research on the planet, much of it coming out of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab.
This video premiered at the TED2012 Conference in Long Beach, California on February 29, 2012. Deputy Dean for Education and GRASP lab member Vijay Kumar presented some of this groundbreaking work at the TED2012 conference, an international gathering of people and ideas from technology, entertainment, and design.
The engineers from Penn, Daniel Mellinger and Alex Kushleyev, have formed a company called KMel Robotics that will design and market these quadrotors.
Recording studios are replacing interns with robots. Music producer Sam Pura, owner of The Panda Studios in Northern California, shows off his new best friend in the studio, the robot microphone.
Outcome of the Learning Robots Module by Paul van Beek, Sander Biesmans and Lloyd Alberts
Roadie demonstrates its robotic guitar tuner at Haxlr8r's Fall 2013 showcase.
Ezi-Servo put together this robot guitar to demonstrate the capabilties of their servos and actuators at RobotWorld 2013 in Seoul, Korea.
Cyther (human playable robotic Zither), a cooperative musical robot created by Scott Barton and playing together with Nate Tucker.
This one is the first prototype of its kind
All instruments present (in the frame, the other two are not played in this video) are made by EMMI (expressivemachines.com) and WPI's Music Perception and Robotics Lab.
Excerpt of Wayne Siegel's Trio for percussion, motion-tracking performance system and robot-controlled pipe organ.
Henrik Knarborg Larsen, percussion
Wayne Siegel, computer
organ by Klais Orgelbau, Bonn
Everyone hates getting stuck in a video game and not being able to beat it, but one software engineer took his frustration to a whole new level. When his daughter showed him an iPad piano game, he built a robot capable of successfully playing the fast-moving game.
After learning new software and programming languages, Stanford students in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have an opportunity to choose a creative task and design a robot to perform the task for demonstration. The tasks call for a wide range of fundamental skills, but generally require the robot to sense where it is in space, detect objects around it, and then autonomously interact with those objects in its environment. Recent projects include dominoes, playing the xylophone, and sketching out an image.
A video, recorded in April, shows 14 robots and two humans singing Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 while another robot conducts them.
The robots, all named 'Pepper' are humanoid creations by SoftBank Mobile and Aldebaran Robotics, designed with the ability to read emotions. Each one is controlled through a computer that is programmed to identify different singing parts. The choir is called the "Mirai Capsule", mirai means 'future' in Japanese.
The choir has been criticised by fans of classical music who say the machines ruin a masterpiece.