November 25th, 2008 – Georgia Tech’s robotics program has created robots that are capable of improvising music to human players. Through a series of algorithms, they decide what and when to play based upon the music they hear.
Pretty impressive, but I’ll be truly impressed when a robot is able to learn how to play by itself, rather than starting with an already programmed brain. That way it gains the experience needed for real creativity. Actually, scratch that. If the robot gets that advanced, there may be a HAL moment where the robot splits off and spends 15 years making a new album under the old band name with none of the original band members. Check out the xylophone-playing robot. Is that screen behind it its face? If so, that’s the cutest robot I’ve ever seen.
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