Monday, December 10, 2007

Land of hope and...

Video

This is not (repeat NOT) a member of the New Scottish Orchestra. Nor is it myself in disguise!
The amount of processing power and programming required to enable this robot to 'play the violin' is amazing, but I don't think Maxim Vengerov has anything to worry about yet: it will be a long time before robots, no matter how well programmed, will ever produce anything like real music.

2 comments:

liz crumlish said...

Iain, I could tell it wasn't you from the standard of playing!:)

IAIN CUNNINGHAM said...

Hmmm ... you are right, the robot was far too good!