Robot Orchestra Conductor
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 25 of January , 2008 at 6:49 am
This robot arm is certainly not the most menacing orchestra conductor I’ve ever seen, but that’s a good thing, right? Now, I’ll be totally honest: I don’t speak French, and the website is in French, so who knows what the story is with this thing. The performance was in Laval, France, but I’m not sure what was actually behind the arm movements… As in, was it all preprogrammed, or was there some inherent randomness like a human conductor would have?
If anyone speaks French, do us all a favor and post in the comments.
Category: Musical
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Comment by irobogenius
Made Friday, 25 of January , 2008 at 2:52 pm
Hi , i speak french,
in the website they say that it was the first time in the world that a robot conducted an orchestra like this, they also said that it was a big success without any faults, the robot is an IRB 240 of ABB, the generator of this idea was Pascal Gautier (an ancient professional musician) who loves virtual reality (his new professional field) .
personnaly i think it’s fun to try new ideas in robotics, creat a bot that is involved in different domains
Comment by irobogenius
Made Friday, 25 of January , 2008 at 2:58 pm
also , the bot was all preprogrammed with violonist
Comment by Evan Ackerman
Made Friday, 25 of January , 2008 at 4:56 pm
Cool! Thanks for the info, irobogenius.
Comment by Cochonou
Made Saturday, 26 of January , 2008 at 5:16 am
The actual motions of the bot were recorded using motion capture from a living conductor. The robot only conducted the first tune of the performance.