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Saxy Jazz-playing Robot

Posted February 14, 2007 7:17 AM

From Engadget:

Here we have a creepo, many-fingered Japanese robot playing John Coltrane's solo from "Giant Steps." Sure, he's got the chops, but just doesn't seem to capture the emotion of the piece. After the robots dominate the human race will they torture us with such lifeless renditions of all our once-sacred tunes? The video's after the break

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Ow, my ears!

02/14/2007 2:08 PM

Man, that was some foul-sounding stuff! My wife made me stop the video because it hurt her soul.

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02/15/2007 9:33 AM

This will be our punishment for technological hubris...

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02/15/2007 10:56 AM

Good for the team that spend so many times to let us know that music is music and the man got what he has!!

Thank's God I am able to hear good Jazz .

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02/18/2007 3:40 PM

Ah, Vogon poetry...
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