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Punk Rock Robots Rock Out to Punk Rock ONLY
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 4:00 AM on July 6, 2008
Making robots even more hardcore, British roboticists have designed machines that will only dance to punk rock music. Standing 2 metres tall, padded in leather and decked in various punk scene insignias, the pogoing robots wait until they hear the familiar strains of anti-establishment rock before they start dancing. Is it just me, or do these things sound like they'd be a minor threat in the mosh pit?
The machines were designed by a collaboration of artists and scientists from Queen Mary University in London. They use neural networks, a collection of computer processors that function like a simple animal brain, to differentiate between Black Flag and say... Bob Marley. The result: robots that can dance to a genre of music even if they've never heard the song before. Check out the BBC link to see a video of the robots gleefully pogoing to The Fumadores. [BBC]
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badhatharry
Posted 4:28 AM 6/7/08
these robots have NOFX on me.
badhatharry
Captain Bringdown
Posted 4:26 AM 6/7/08
"Is it just me, or do these things sound like they'd be a minor threat in the mosh pit?"
I see what you did there. I just hope the robots are clean and don't spread any germs.
Captain Bringdown
Mayor McRib
Posted 4:23 AM 6/7/08
So, do they dance when you play Green Day? Didn't think so.
Mayor McRib
gymtonic
Posted 5:01 AM 6/7/08
do they robot rock their way to an Aerodynamic, Alive, Burnin' Daft Punk?
gymtonic
erikislame
Posted 4:50 AM 6/7/08
I hope they're able to release them without any kinks.
erikislame
robotleawesome
Posted 4:43 AM 6/7/08
@Mayor McRib: win.
robotleawesome
DaSmith
Posted 5:18 AM 6/7/08
The link is amasing "]"... No seriously, it may be a good idea to fix it.
DaSmith
Ghede
Posted 5:41 AM 6/7/08
@erikislame: You forgot this:
[www.instantrimshot.com]
Ghede
tehdahl
Posted 7:00 AM 6/7/08
"Where's that fracking music coming from?!"
damn those fracking Cylons.
tehdahl
Darkest Daze
Posted 7:00 AM 6/7/08
@badhatharry:
NOFX on you? Damn, you must be a Rancid Choking Victim on Leftover Crack that has No Use for a Name. People like you need to Kill Your Idols and find some Suicide Machines. But your Descendants and Offspring will talk about how you had A Fire Inside.
Too far?
Darkest Daze
badhatharry
Posted 7:55 AM 6/7/08
@Darkest Daze: No, that was pretty awesome. Well played, sir.
badhatharry
Mith
Posted 7:36 AM 6/7/08
Are you sure these are machines..? It looks like there may be people trapped inside of it!
Mith
oo0cyst0oo
Posted 11:06 AM 6/7/08
anyone notice that the volume on that video goes to 11?
try it. really. not a joke or a pun.
oo0cyst0oo
tehdahl
Posted 11:58 AM 6/7/08
@oo0cyst0oo:
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
tehdahl
OMG! Ponies!
Posted 11:24 PM 6/7/08
They're no more of a danger than your foolish decision to wear Chuck Taylor All-Stars to the Hub City Stompers show.
Chucks are okay for ska shows; punk shows require steel-toe boots.
OMG! Ponies!
Purple Dave
Posted 2:01 PM 7/7/08
I thought the idea of Punk music was to do your own thing, and to hell with whatever anyone else thought about you. And yet it seems that the Punk movement has now been reduced to an automaton that's programmed by society to dance to a genre of music as long as it fits within a rigidly defined set of parameters. How ironic.
Purple Dave
Darkest Daze
Posted 3:33 PM 7/7/08
@Purple Dave:
Yea, unfortunately the definition of being Punk has been watered down and stereotyped. Nothings better then going to a show and seeing all the kids who buy hair dye and 30lbs of spikes the night before because that's what they think they must do to be Punk. I find it sad.
Darkest Daze
tehdahl
Posted 1:21 AM 8/7/08
@Darkest Daze:
+1 for Calvin.
tehdahl
Ultraorange
Posted 2:05 AM 8/7/08
uh Check out "Captured By Robots"
Ultraorange
G2GdoB2B
Posted 4:11 AM 8/7/08
There's another robot technology that's trying to add emotional bonding to robots (Check it out: [www.internetevolution.com] )
I wonder if they will mix'em together and get one terminator.
G2GdoB2B