Robots sing Happy Birthday to the Science Museum

ICCMR's singing robots, Tom, Dick and Harry, were programmed at the University of Plymouth to sing Happy Birthday to celebrate the centenary of the Science Museum. The robots were on display at the Science Museum's Dana Centre on 10 June 2009.

More on ICCMR at Plymouth University: http://cmr.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/

More on the Science Museum's Centenary celebrations:
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Computer
• Science
• museum
• robotics
• university

[tresazero]

Despite the cute clothing, the robots look terrible if compared to those made by large multi billion dollar companies (Honda, Sony, etc.) - but this is not the point these guys are making. There is some clever AI going on inside the robots; see the other movie "Robots learning to sing to each other".

[mastashaker916]

Why wait?

[qwertasd7]

This is hilarious, never heard a more pathetic version, it could be straight from the hitchhikers guide; remember where the doors say "share and enoy" but by a programming error had a wrong pitch, oh men its just like that this is great. Even Marvin would get more depressed

:)

[metabog]

Very good idea. I think the vibrato could be toned down, but that's not the point.

[fratiigore]

this rules. thumbs down to all the haters.

[SMIDJID204]

this is farting with rhythm,, ^^

[MrKiims]

ahahah

[Crapshack100]

this isn't singing robot's it's a rip off

[BriPod90]

cool. you cant really hear the tune in the beginning but once the end starts rolling up then you can hear it.

[louisw331]

COOL

[notbenbreakstone]

No. Sony's (now dead) QRIO was better than this. Those things sang in English AND Japanese. You need to go seal some prototypes from their vault.

[DeadlySoapbox]

FAIL!

That sounded more like... I dunno what it sounded like. But it did NOT sound like Happy Birthday. No sir.

Poor robots. They're tone deaf.