A piano battle between Italian pianist Roberto Prosseda and his robot counterpart Teotronico proves that human-robot competition in the art field is no longer science fiction.
The competition, held Thursday night at the Beijing Concert Hall, featured Roberto Prosseda, a 43-year-old Italian pianist and musician, and robot pianist Teotronico, or Teo, who has 53 fingers which can move in an extremely fast and accurate manner.
Both Prosseda and Teo were tested on almost every technique of piano playing from works of great composers such as Chopin, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Beethoven. Applause from the audience were used as the evaluation standard.
In agility, accuracy and duration, Teo was better than Prosseda; while in continuity, forte-piano (an early type of piano popular in the late 18th century) and expression, Prosseda won over Teo.
Prosseda expressed his belief that even though we humans make mistakes, a machine can never totally replace a human in making music.
Teo was designed and manufactured by Mateo Suzi from Italy in 2012. He plays the piano through many dynamically controlled joints. The robot can play the piano, produce and play digital music files from piano rolls recorded by past great pianists, such as Ferruccio Dante and Josef Hofmann.
Besides playing the piano and composing music, Teo can also talk and interact with people. He has rich facial expressions, such as movements of head, mouth, eyes and even eyelids and eye brows.
The piano battle is also part of the one-month-long "Meet-In- Beijing" Arts Festival, which concluded on Thursday.
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