Piano-playing robot

[MrOpensaysme123]

ROUND OF APLAUSE!

[Quadraxis14]

Its gears working kind of add to the music's beat, I like it XD

[gobstopit]

Now do keyboard cat!

[SergeSniper]

nice beat...

[FishFlopp]

its better than me.

[captainpanic08]

It makes me sad that this robot is far more skilled at the piano that I am ever likely to be.

[TheTABOADA13]

play master of puppets on piano

[phcomment25n]

i get a boner

[gamehead91]

If you listen to the motors in the arms,It too sounds like music.

[jesuswasntjewish]

This is how Skynet starts.

[soadx90]

Does want!

[Kaktusmannen123]

omg better than me

[vincent7520]

ah ! Mozart ! Bach !… you're outplayed ! …

[spol07]

The motor noise sounds like shakers.

[syaoranpies]

the squeaking arms add a nice touch

[xdudeyourcool]

YAY good robot good

[FutileFreak]

Fuck, It's still better at playing then i am!

[svendavidsson]

SSSSHIT!!!! ROCK AND ROLL IS DEAD!! ROBOTS CAN NOW PLAY CHILDRENS SONGS IN THE KEY OF C MAJOR

[sebrporte]

We're doomed!

[limpkit2011]

holy shit

[thekendu]

This is mostly useless.

[TheSanityInspector]

@thekendu Back in 1903, the Wright brothers motorized kite, which could barely fly 100 yards carrying only one person, was pretty useless too, yes?

[thekendu]

@TheSanityInspector I understand it takes a certain vision to forsee possible uses. Or maybe one cannot forsee it at all.

Maybe something useful will be developed based on this.

However i dobut this particular software can be implemented in something else, seeing how this does not seem to be an evolutionary algorithm. It is simply programmed for the purpose of playing some pre-defined keys. And this kind of solution can be generated wihout much difficulty.

[MrqLaw]

Some one seriously needs to make a remix of this. The robots arms set a good beat dont they?

[lovethewor1d]

Squeeking of movements and tapping tick tick sounds are as loud as sound from piano.

[kaptenmax]

add some slight variance, its to perfectly spaced. good music need some variance or "feel"

[xBonderx]

you probably say Automatic Pitching Bot is just a modified howitzer.

[lukequixotesanjose]

Cool, but can it beat box?

[effov]

now build ar robot throwing roses on the stage

[ConveX91]

The sound of his motors actually makes some kinda nice percussion there.

[xsirhc6x]

could you imagine how hard it would be to get the timing right on that!

[borborcarcar]

But will it blend?

[3mora3mora3mora]

Was there a mistake at 0:17???

[ClearedToLand7]

comes with his own drum kit... IE the sound of the servos... cute. In the wrong key though, but hey.

[DrakeMagnum]

This made me smile. Call me a doof.

[nickhashair]

can it play the keyboard cat song?

[exethosdrum]

A vid that is both rich, and compelling.

[Kedchup]

Play him off, keyboard robot!

[xxjacobxx3]

the servos were making a beat along with the piano lol.

[Kevrill]

I recognise his face, it's him who's been seeing my wife!

[danno1111]

Player pianos are what, more than 100 year old technology?

[Supuhstar]

Now the REAL question was what was he playing?

The alphabet song?

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star?

Ba Ba Black Sheep?

What WAS it?!

[Jaspirita]

@Supuhstar roflmao! Nice!

[PsycheDelectic]

@Supuhstar I think it was a combination of all three

[ailidhe]

@Supuhstar altijd is kortjakje ziek Is the song I recognize in it.

[coverstreet2009]

@Supuhstar It is a French song called "Ah! vous dirai-je, Maman."

[ThomasWinkworth]

@Supuhstar twinkle twinkle little star obviously

[ivorytickler8888]

@Supuhstar That arrangement is the beginning of a Piano Sonata in C major, by Mozart. It is a theme and variations based on the song, which is originally a French folk song called "Ah, je vous dirai, maman."

But yeah...it was actually Ba Ba Black Sheep for the first half, then the Alphabet Song to finish things off.

[ivorytickler8888]

@ivorytickler8888 Oops, Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman....same thing but crap grammar on my part.

[techsta72]

@ivorytickler8888 was twinkle little star all the way

[ivorytickler8888]

@techsta72 No, twinkle twinkle is a younger song than Ah! Vous dirai,je.....and the harmony is pretty unmistakable

[fumfulapenguin]

@Supuhstar its winkle twinkle little start

[screamjackson]

@Supuhstar im sure it was twinkle twinkle little star lol just with some robot emphasis :}

[soadx90]

@Supuhstar The world may never know.

[CoolBlue731]

@Supuhstar Perhaps he was playing "Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman".

[Supuhstar]

Okay, but I didn't subscribe to this channel to see what any good robotic programmer can do over a weekend. I subscribed to see the advances made in science.

[RealKeenan]

*standing ovation*

[000blind000]

Lady's and Gentleman's. The new Draft Punk!

[jadenjak]

i was thinking at least keyboard cat XP

[lceus]

Should've made the robot more silent. Give it more fingers too!!

[princeofexcess]

or you could just have a recording

[snoopyloopy]

now if they were to combine this robot with the one who learned how to aim the arrows, then that would be something to get excited about.

[Shaunt1]

Too bad that's probably all it can do.

[oizz]

gimmicks are fun, but this one is not

[hiyalk]

i want the narrarator bak, they'd say sumthin clever, like this robot can be used to fight cancer

[DeathRAY310]

Go to your adress bar , type gift to youtube and press enter to win a prize

[keepondev]

what if the piano changed or the robot moved a little right or left ?

[yatah]

@keepondev The universe would explode. Obviously.

[uni4dfx]

We already had piano playing robots 15 years ago. It's called MIDI on a computer.

[ekoukano]

The motors sound like a background drum beat.　Awesome.

[Trackmanijak]

The beat was awesome! Thk thk thk zwm!

[giuseppe449]

isnt the piano a robot?

[MsHolylove]

cool robot! 

[qwertycxzz]

Хуйня. Компьютер и так сможет это сыграть, а вот научить робота создавать - другое дело.

[Fr0stBlade]

I would be impressed if the robot learned this by itself somehow. But since someone just programmed his arms to move to a preset position this is very lame indeed. Many "robots" produced for completely different things can do this.

[jeremyshambles]

today your love, tomorrow the world! -the ramones

[niswel]

aww - should have played "The Robots" instead...

[fablungo]

"Like" - The damn button wont work :@

[shockferret]

Hmm. I have a machine that plays the piano automatically.

Now, to sell it, I just need to invent a TIME MACHINE to go back to the early 19th century, to just before they invented those.

[bloximonkey]

LOL I'll would just buy an iPod instead.

[blackkat77]

HAHAHA ITS SOOO CUTE

[whytyt]

Xmas gift for geeky type

[littlebuttons]

so cute

[httprover]

It needs a softer touch. The clicks from hitting the keys are rather annoying.

[6476Mike]

now i want to see some Beethoven ( i hope its spelled like that)

[larry89]

i need that thing to come to my studio

[LtKaraWade]

What the hell is wrong with you lately newscientistvideo?! How many times do we have to say we'd like some context when you post vids like this? Seriously!

[zate1982]

Well, at least he is not trained to throw arrows to people.

[Faustoteinmor]

TO ROb0T DoEsn't liKE BAD ComMEnTS.

[cg303]

PLAC PLAC PLAC PLAC PLAC PLAC PLAC!

[quickgonzalez89]

I could have built it with my Lego Mind storm

[noidentity07]

joints add a cool robot beat

[qazxswe5697]

errr FK U ROBOT Q.Q i cant even play a decent song on it....

[lethaljellybean]

IT'S SO CUTE

[mackat4ck]

Great now lets hear some of Beethoven's 9th symphony

[junior510]

way better than me i cant even play this :(

[1RadicalOne]

It is better than I am....and I have six fingers, a major advantage...

[asseeninYOURDREAMS]

lame.

[IKnowBestest]

Ah, but can it write it's own music?

[Bobbiethejean]

That is precious. <3

[9thgate]

They are cute now, but just wait until they take over the world...

[McPrfctday]

I want one in the corner of the room to play randomly during Christmas. Best thing is that his pneumatics sound like an accompanying snare drum!

[beachcomber2008]

Forget CP3O, it's a quarter Pinnochio

[ShallowThoughts]

Shift that robot a half-inch to the left and it's a piece of crap

[McPrfctday]

@ShallowThoughts lol yeah, shift that robot half an inch to the left and it's Les Dawson! (if you're not English that probably means nothing to you)

[lemonzawodowiec]

This is the coolest robot I've ever seen. I WISH HE WAS MY FRIEND : )

[shalkana]

That's adorable :)

[AreaQNH870]

man these are not the awesome robots I envisioned for 2010. What a shame.

[ILiveForScience]

I think the sounds of the joints give the piece a great sense of rhythm!

[balamanti2]

I'd rather spend money and time teaching a human being how to play the piano it will sound better, and more cost effective

[ObliviuxProductions]

This robot will cheer us up while he is shooting at us

[kid29a]

Too simple and ordinary to care about it really apart from making cynical or unrelated funny comment.

[HeadShot360IN]

what a waste of those giant blocks of delrin... fricken cost $50 for each of them hands

[ALAPAT1]

Why not just use MIDI?

[flaminess]

i love the beat

[JasonJJasonJ]

ABCDEFG-HIJKLMNOP-QRS-TUV-WXY&­Z

or is it

Twinkle Twinkle Little star?

[rossidude]

@JasonJJasonJ

Neither. Variation of "Ah, vous dirais-je, Maman" by Mozart.

[spongah]

Can you make one that'll jack me off?

[razhorblahd]

Not an amazingly impressive robot, but it managed to put a smile on my face :)

[thedragonwilleatyou]

Good job, now do Beethoven's 5th.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

@thedragonwilleatyou you should try playing Beethoven's 5th with 2 fingers :P

[blazednlovinit]

@thedragonwilleatyou flight of the bubblebee lol

[wjfox2006]

Nice, but nothing special. There are robots far more impressive than this.

[foxrings]

ehh.. without 5 mechanical fingers its no more cool then a vid that you'd only pass around to your friends

[ethinethin]

A "simmalation" of a piano player

[dfghj241]

ahhhhhhhhhhh so cuteeee

[Arka48]

he's his own metronome with those gears. Love it

[foot1piczocom]

Next: Beethoven Für Elise 

[NicosMind]

The sqeaky arms gave it a nice rhythm

[ulthea]

Not a whole lot different to a pianola, but still cool :D

[ExhumedANDConsumed]

@ulthea It is quite a lot different actually, notice that the robot is moving his arms and accurately hitting keys in time. Try making something similar and posting it on youtube.

[ulthea]

@ExhumedANDConsumed Congratulations on taking offense to my simple comment. I am well aware of the differences having owned a pianola in my young life thank you, but my point was the similarities in pre-programmed mechanics of some kind creating a delightful melody. But thank you for pointing out the obvious /end sarcasm.

[ExhumedANDConsumed]

hes better than me

[matafixer]

cute!!!

[nordaky]

The sound of his arms moving ads an extra dimension to the song, very rhythmic.

[ThatsSoBS]

Looks like keyboard cat has some competition

[DaDaWgLLS]

What would happen if someone were to shift him slightly to the left?

[luckviewer777]

FUNKY SQUEAK sound but still

it is different if human plays it

it have SPIRIT

[lizardogre]

What's the polyphony on that?

[Snotlingfondler]

his movement noises add a funky beat to it

[SlashDotDash121]

Just need some tumbs....

Poor guy....

[ryanpiuma]

The end is so sad. It's like he's sitting there waiting for and applause, but nothing!

[khk0510]

@ryanpiuma I'll tell you the story of what happens to that robot in 2 years. After that recital, the robot became devastated due to the fact that there was no applause. He never had the opportunity to follow his dream of being the first robot pianist to play at Carnegie Hall. Robot then quit his job at newscientistvideo and pursued a life of crime. He became a serious Oil Abuser or also known as "Grease" Abuser. Soon realizing that he had no purpose anymore, he threw himself into a puddle.

[av3nger3]

@ryanpiuma

We applaud. X D

[Th30Hacker]

someone is moving the robots arms..

[AppA]

So long, real pianists!

[Sodorii]

Just you wait till he can do Daft Punk - Technologic!!

[FrankaDith]

I rather enjoyed it,well made little machine .

[stfuuuuuuuuu]

he was definetly enjoying the music...

[rewii93]

So lame :(

[webbster7]

not long now until they TAKE OVER THE WORLD

[Clavera]

Most advanced robot ever, seriously.

Just go into any production facility and you will see robots more advanced packaging stuffs from different heights etc.

[hgryphon]

I'm sorry, but this is a disingenuous title. This robot is not "playing the piano." If there wasn't a piano in front of this robot, would it still run through the same motions? The piano is secondary to running the program.

[blazednlovinit]

@hgryphon its still playing a piano tho... as it is in front of one. if it wasnt in front of one and doing the same as it is now, it wouldnt be playing a piano. it is only doing the same as humans do to play piano, recall motor reflexes from the past (just without the sensory input is all)

[hgryphon]

@blazednlovinit "Playing" the piano, or any instrument, or any sport for that matter, suggests more than the mechanical aspect. If I designed a robot that can kick a soccer ball into a goal, is that robot playing soccer? Is it aware what soccer even is? Or is it only aware of it's programming which means it must kick?

[blazednlovinit]

@hgryphon no it is kicking a football into a goal, much like this one is playing the piano because it is playing a piano... O_o

nothing in the definition of either football or playing instruments i have ever seen mentions that the player needs to consciously know what he/she/it is doing

its only programming that makes humans kick too btw

[hgryphon]

@blazednlovinit When a person plays a piano, what is their goal? Might I suggest that it is to have fun, or perhaps entertain others, or if you have ever known this kind of person, to help themselves think.

How about this robot? What is this robot's goal? Move arm A over, move arm A down, move arm B over, move arm B down. The robot doesn't care about the output or the result, as long as it runs through the program. It would go through the same routine if you put a Harry Potter novel there.

[blazednlovinit]

@hgryphon we are talking about a robot playing the piano. playing a piano is not that specific a definition "hitting a pianos keys in specific orders in order to entertain people and have fun or to help oneself think.." to me its just "hitting the keys on a piano in specific order to create a melody" i mean you get them self playing pianos, in your world they are self playing pianos that cant play themselves? :S

[hgryphon]

@blazednlovinit Right then! So if you put an orchestra CD into your CD player, it could be said that the CD player is playing all of those instruments?

[blazednlovinit]

@hgryphon no but you would say that the CD player is PLAYING the CD, specially since its name is a CD player. would you not?

[hgryphon]

@blazednlovinit And you would say this robot is running a program. The fact that they put it in front of a piano is secondary.

[blazednlovinit]

@hgryphon i'd say a human is running a program with every conscious or unconscious decision they ever make. i already addressed this

[hgryphon]

@blazednlovinit If we're all just running programs, then what was the point of even starting this conversation? You knew ahead of time that I was programmed to hold a different opinion, right? Or could it be that your programmed human concept is as much bullshit as this robot "playing" the piano?

[blazednlovinit]

@hgryphon lol ask a psychologist that knows about human actions motivation and behaviour. the piont of starting this conversation was to share my view about this video, i thought that would have been obvious. look up the word Schema online and you'll get a very human program running within the brain. can you please also conpose yourself because you seem to be losing composure with the foul language and that.

Cheers mate

[hgryphon]

@blazednlovinit Foul language? It's not like I said fuck or shit or anything like that. I just said bullshit. Do these words offend you? Too bad.

"ask a psychologist" You mean you can't refer me to one? I do believe you're making things up. That's why I was calling you on your bullshit.

"you'll get a very human program" Or I'll get even more bullshit. But go ahead, run around telling everyone that the things they do are all part of a computer program. I'm sure that'll be a hit in the UK.

[blazednlovinit]

@hgryphon you say its not like you said shit, but you go on to acknowledge you say "bullshit" i cannot believe you are so stupid you wouldnt spot a word you are claiming to have not said when you clearly have said it. i cant believe you're in your 30s and so childish, you're either too proud or stupid to accept any logical arguement i have to offer so lets just leave it at that because you're boring me now

[hgryphon]

@blazednlovinit "Shit" and "bullshit" mean two separate things. Shit means feces and bullshit means false information.

But this isn't about shit and bullshit, is it? You realized that when I call you on your bullshit, you can't back it up. So you're going to just dismiss me now, right? I'm not worth your time now that I called your bluff, right? You're going to cover by calling it boring and childish. Bravo. And with that excellent exit strategy employed, just remember, you started it, pal.

[blazednlovinit]

@hgryphon here mate, grow up, i offered my opinion on something there is no objective answer to, so get off your high horse because you dont get to decide for everyone what subjective information is correct and isnt. i arnt going to go blue in the face trying to change your mind because what will that do for me? explain the logic. you need to get out more

Merry Christmas