World’s First Saxophone-Playing Robot
Writing by Conner Flynn on Tuesday, 18 of December , 2007 at 1:44 am
Developed by Japanese researchers, this is the world’s first Saxophone-playing Robot. It’s capable of playing some highly complex pieces like John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps”, which you can see in the video after the jump. I’m no music critic, but it’s fascinating to watch as you can see it’s “fingers” moving to open and close the valves on the instrument. Now if they can hook this one up to some other robot-instruments, pretty soon they are all going to be able to play together and have it sound halfway decent. Maybe this one can team up with Toyota’s violin playing robot. Personally, I think the Cantina song from Star Wars would have been more appropriate.
Video after the jump.
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Category: Musical
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Comment by Andre L. Soares
Made Wednesday, 26 of December , 2007 at 12:20 pm
That is wonderfull. To every day I am more impressed with the human creativity.
Comment by Andrew
Made Saturday, 15 of August , 2009 at 7:39 pm
Lets hear it growl in that horn or let us hear it play in the altissimo range, also make that horn swing and improvise on it perhaps some Sonny Rollins or train or something like that.