ROBOCLARINET

A robot clarinet player designed by a team from UNSW and NICTA has won first prize at an international orchestra competition.

The robot, which performed The Flight of the Bumblebee and Bolero in the final, beat a Dutch developed guitar-picking robot and a Finnish piano-playing machine.

Staged in Athens, the goal of the Artemis Music Orchestra competition is to raise awareness about the growing capacity and applications of embedded computer systems.

For more info, please visit the School of Physics website: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/clarinetrobot.html

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• Artemis
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• computer

[xnightreaperx]

the tone quality of that clarinet is so...poor...

not legato at all XD

PWNED robot

[idrobyn]

technology cant take band way from us i hope that the robot explodes

[MsEva98]

Ok, it's so curious,but I prefer human clarinetists, a robot clarinetist plays can't convey me any feelings and a human clarinetist has more merit.

[PacoLlamacco]

they took being a nerd to the next level, clarinet and robots. i've been playing clarinet for 6 years and i'm 2nd chair in my band but seriously. DA FUCK, get laid guys

[tramrunner]

really amazing..... looks like stam engine and very very complicated

[MegaJeniiffer]

Huuy Comoo?

[Melsi1979]

"the robot explodes"... Oh God I laughed so much and still laughing, so funny! The poor sound is obvious in the upper register. On the other hand I feel happy.. someone has worked and focused on what we love so much!! The result is very impressing, we all know how difficult it is to play the instrument correctly (still laughing). As for loosing our job, don't think so! normal people want to connect with the player as well.

[picadurapraquememole]

Porque ele não enfia no cú esse clarinete de merrrrrda!!

[phillipmccrevis]

Robot, sir, work on your embouchure.

[Phaedriatica]

@xnightreaperx: I'll admit the tonality isn't good, but "not legato at all"? I hear no separation between the notes. Legato indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected. That is, in transitioning from note to note, there should be no articulation. If you mean "vibrato", well, there's not a lot of room for that in a piece that is in 16th notes at 144 BPM and the 8th notes are marked staccato.