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Domo Arigato, Mr. Rocko Roboto [Posted by Dave Haber on Wednesday, 06/18/08 2:54 pm] [Digg This]
You won't believe this unless you play the video for yourself.
This is The Trons, billed as the first fully autonomous robotic band. This is not electronic music, this is electronics playing music. Sort of reminds me of crude Disney animatronics, except these robots actually are doing what they appear to be doing!
The robotic members of The Trons go by the names Ham (vox and rhythm guitar), Wiggy (single string lead guitar), Swamp (drums) and Fifi (one-handed keyboards). The song in the video above is called "Sister Robot".
If you think about it, with what would be required to make robot fingers do something like actually play a guitar, this is pretty impressive. And also a little bit scary.
