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Honda's Asimo conducts Detroit Symphony Orchestra

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Uploaded by on May 15, 2008

Honda's ASIMO conducts the Detroit Symphony Orchestra as it performs "Impossible Dream" to open a concert performance featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma on May 13th, 2008.

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  • Does this show how sophisticated robots have become or that conductors have an easy job? Just kidding.

  • You're not acknowledging that the ASIMO moves its head when responding to a specific section of the orchestra; it handles the ritardando near the end as if humanly responding to the sensitivity of the musicians; subdivides the beats of the antepenultimate bar; and gives a clear cutoff that doesn't disrupt the flow or the style. It's people like you that think you can reduce the responsibility of the conductor to just waving his arms. But, my friend, you just aren't paying attention well enough.

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  • @ottomobille no, he's doinng something called CONDUCTING!!!

  • @rufus888 Exactly!!! Imagine if a car is driving makes a mistake and kills someone.

  • @doraemon8061 then you have to buy him. :D

  • im wondering, can asimo sing?

  • Impresive and cute too~ I wanna hug him~

  • THIS IS NOT CONDUCTING, IT IS JUST A SHOW.... CONDUCTING IS SHOWING O DYNAMICS... BUT ROBOT DID WELL I SUPOSE TO SAY :DDDD

  • This is why America is going downhill. Immigrant robots taking jobs from our weakest members: symphony conductors. Congress should ban this!

  • This is why America is going downhill. Immigrant robots taking jobs from our weakest members: symphony conductors. Congress should ban this!

  • That rendition is lacking as much musicality as several renditions led by flesh and blood conductors. what does that tell you?

  • its doing the same thing over and over again probably programmed to do a loop or something

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