Toyoto Trumpet Playing Robot

Toyoto trumpet playing robot
Toyotashi, Japan

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• toyota
• robot
• trumpet
• japan
• cool

[ecwrules66]

dude its an insane piece of technology, even though its not that 'useful', so just shut the hell up its impressive

[NorthPortStrad]

hmm...too bad its sound is horribly monotone and lacking in any expression or emotion...

no machine will ever be capable of replicating the expression a human being can put into music....

just like a human being will never be able to replicate the mystery behind a wolfs howl...

[STEProductions]

I want it.

[hextupleyoodot]

@NorthPortStrad But it can easily be used to play back the recorded expression of human artists. If a real musician simply played an trumpet that recorded the input of the finger presses as well as data like air flow, they could use that data and have the robot replay that perfectly. It's not true expression, but it sounds nice.

[ryansth16]

@NorthPortStrad Think again. All you need is a program written based on the fundamentals of playing musically with expression and upload that into one of the computer chips inside the robot. As time goes by that can get better and better at a rate humans will be unable to match. Combined with better tone and intonation which will be easily done and robots will be the best musicians.

Won't be soon but we may see it in our lifetimes. Not a very promising thought for violists like myself.

[IAmMrTrumpet]

thats amazing, most people that dont play brass have no idea that you have to change the way ur lips fit in the moutpiece, i have no clue on how they compensated for that, but it still could never match a humans playing... not matter how cool this robot is hahaha

[Ironskullingurass]

yeah I am with you there...

[ParticalMahn]

lol we so need one of those for our band

[rxlover]

OMG, Chris Botti, it's a pleasure to finally meet you.

[Lace345]

i find this to be kind of cool, yet at the same time it pissed me off. it's awesome how the human being is capable of engineering something like that. but it pisses me off that it's not human, seriously Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong is probably twitching in his grave. it's awesome we can do this but i'd rather have a human being that puts the effort into training and playing for years do this, not some robot that they can manipulate the embouchure for using lip like substances.

[willyk9]

what's with this? we don't need robot musicians, why don't instead of wasting money on this crap, toyota do some good?