ISMIR Keynote - Wind instrument-playing humanoid robots
What's not to love!?!? Robots and Music! This was a great talk.
Wind instrument-playing humanoid robots Atsuo Takanishi
Some history of robots:
Wabot-2 - early music playing robot
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHMQuo_DsNU]
Wabian-2 - walking robots
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxsbJhOdkrQ&feature=player_embedded]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWDYVNJAIio&feature=player_embedded]
Emotional Robots
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUxQB8YLxbg"]
Kobian: Emotional humanoid robot
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rLsgy-wheQ]
Voice Producing Robots
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP8nL2bD82U&feature=related]
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkBRHMblsMA]
Music Performance Robots
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYDW2A5-Cbw]
(Compare)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuQVs2Ch1LY&NR=1]