Ah no just saw this and thought you guys might be interested to watch this http://www.takanishi.mech.waseda.ac.jp/research/flute/mpvie/BumbleBee.mpg
any way hpoe you enjoy

Leprachaun

O.k sorry that didn`t work. So when you click the above site, click on the website thats some where in the middle of the text. Then you click the dude playing the flute and just you wait and see.

O.k sorry again that didn`t work either mabey just go onto the Larry Krantz site and find the link for the robot dude playing The Flight of the Bumblebee any way it`s really cool.

Leprachaun

I have seen that before. No robot can play with emotions like the human being can, so don`t worry, we can never be replaced. Besides, we are all unique and not two people play exactly the same. It is kind of like a snowflake.

Wow. Just the fact that a robot can be programmed to play like that is interesting. Now, if they could just get it to compensate for going out of tune. ICK, it was really bad in a few spots...

Cool. Nice to know technology is advancing. But there were still some really off notes in there. A machine just can`t play as well as a human can.

The flutes will never be replaced! NEVER!!!

wow that was amazing... some of those notes were ... interesting... but still amazing! robots will never replace musicians, that robot just proved why lol

Re: "No robot can play with emotions like the human being can, so don`t worry, we can never be replaced."

Famous last words. If we can`t actually be replaced by robots, however, we will try like to hell to become robots ourselves--this medium a case in point. For allegorical elaboration, I strongly recommend you read Ijon Tichy`s "Eleventh Voyage" in Stanislaw Lem`s "The Star Diaries".