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!
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Gamelatron takes a traditional Gamelan orchestra and replaces the well-trained Javanese with metronome-accurate computer-controlled robotic arms!
Sure, their lyrics may be in a made-up robot language, but so are most of Lou Reed's.
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.
Welcome to the beginning of the end.
The robots' takeover of high culture is now near complete.
ASIMO, a humanoid robot, is set to lead an orchestra in a performance of "The Impossible Dream." Start hoarding canned food.
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.
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