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Posted 07/21/08 in Vulture

News Reel

Robot Apocalypse Update: Robotic Gamelan Descends on Chelsea Art Museum

Robot Apocalypse Update: Robotic Gamelan Descends on Chelsea Art Museum

Gamelatron takes a traditional Gamelan orchestra and replaces the well-trained Javanese with metronome-accurate computer-controlled robotic arms!

Posted 06/17/08 in Vulture

Tube Junkie

Can Robot Bands Save the Music Business?

Can Robot Bands Save the Music Business?

Sure, their lyrics may be in a made-up robot language, but so are most of Lou Reed's.

Posted 06/03/08 in Vulture

Countdown

Robot-Apocalypse Update: Robot Orchestra to Perform This Saturday

Robot-Apocalypse Update: Robot Orchestra to Perform This Saturday

This Saturday, an entirely robotic orchestra will play George Antheil’s score to the Dadaist film 'Ballet mécanique' alongside the film itself for the first time.

Posted 05/14/08 in Vulture

Tube Junkie

ASIMO Conducts Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Robot Apocalypse Imminent

ASIMO Conducts Detroit Symphony Orchestra; Robot Apocalypse Imminent

Welcome to the beginning of the end.

Posted 05/08/08 in Vulture

Apropos of Nothing

Ballet-Dancing Robot: Highbrow, Despicable — and a Harbinger of the Apocalypse!

Ballet-Dancing Robot: Highbrow, Despicable — and a Harbinger of the Apocalypse!

The robots' takeover of high culture is now near complete.

Posted 04/25/08 in Vulture

Apropos of Nothing

Robot-Apocalypse Watch: Robot to Conduct Detroit Symphony Orchestra

Robot-Apocalypse Watch: Robot to Conduct Detroit Symphony Orchestra

ASIMO, a humanoid robot, is set to lead an orchestra in a performance of "The Impossible Dream." Start hoarding canned food.

Posted 04/15/08 in Vulture

Apropos of Nothing

Robot-Apocalypse Update: The Machines Go Literary

Robot-Apocalypse Update: The Machines Go Literary

Philip Parker, a professor of management science at Insead business school, is programming computers to collate information into custom-ordered books. In other words: He doesn't write the books, a robot does.