Robot conductor in MI

To highlight a gift it made to music education, Honda brought out a robot to conduct the Detroit Symphony. I'm going to eschew the cheap conductor and Detroit jokes, and simply note that the 'bot was programmed to a particular interpretation of a Broadway tune, and could not interact with the musicians. Artificial intelligence isn't there yet (and I'll skip the obvious joke there too.)

The next logical step is to program an orchestra of robots to do an authentic performance of Wellingtons Sieg.

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Posted by: jeffrey smith
Posted on: May 17, 2008 08:41 PM

I could have told you about that!
http://kishnevi.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/a-new-sort-of-maestro/

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Posted by: Jeffrey Quick
Posted on: May 17, 2008 09:37 PM

Yeah, I read that after I posted this.

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