Classical music enthusiasts long have sought to drum up support for the musical genre among young people, and now they have a secret weapon: the 4-foot-3, childlike robot ASIMO, reports Yahoo.
On Wednesday (May 14), the day after the Honda robot conducted the Detroit Symphony, ASIMO warmed up a crowd of 250 schoolchildren who came to the concert hall to watch a master class with cellist Yo-Yo Ma.
ASIMO — which stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility — ran, danced and kicked a soccer ball to the delight of the students.
"It was phenomenal. I had no idea of the level people were developing robots," said Sam Pernick, a 16-year-old cellist from the Detroit suburb Huntington Woods.
Eric Hwu, 14, a fellow musician from Bloomfield Hills, said he thinks a robot like ASIMO could potentially play a musical instrument, but in the meantime, it could get kids excited about technology.
"A lot of kids I know think robots are cool and would be interesting to work on," he said.
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What's next? Dalek's mentoring the youth.
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He he he he! Great picture!
Yeah yeah. Robots conducting. Nobody pays the conductor any mind, anyway.
It's when they start PLAYING - THAT's when you get concerned....
;-)
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Cool. How 'bout hooker robots, haha!
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Oh they're working on it A1! I'm sure it won't be long before Real Dolls become robotic! i love ASIMO - it's rad! i saw one that danced all saucy and one that could do a handstand.
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Man do I love robots. Outfit that thing with a flamethrower, a cooler and a kickin' sound system and he'd be the perfect Wingman.
Nailosity--I hate to disagree...but if they put out an album completely performed by robots, I would be first in line to download that....Heck, I would even go to an actual store and BUY a copy...with actual dollars!
...Especially if it were performed by 40 foot-tall Godzilla-fighting style robots...only with a wicked Hendix-esque frontman, er, front-bot.
-Dusk
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I can hear it now...
"Asimo, put down the baton!" "I'm sorry, I can't do that, Dave." "What's the problem, Asimo?" "I think you know very well what the problem is."
And almost no one noticed when he kept saying "EX-TER-MIN-ATE! EX-TER-MIN-ATE!"
But what no one knows is that the regular conductor is a Cylon skin-job.
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ya know, technically, DALEKs are not robots. they are alien beings with weird armor. sorry, MAJOR Dr. Who fan here. just be glad i got here before Mike da Knife...
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Fun!
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Mollifire, you're right of course (about the Daleks). I always thought when I was a kid that they were robots, only found out different as an adult and that comment was a brain-fart coming out.
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true enough. i don't think anyone saw inside a Dalek during the early versions. i'm pretty sure the first time I saw the squishy alien part was on one of the more recent versions of the series.