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Humanoid robot enjoys warm welcome
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Humanoid robot enjoys warm welcome

2008-05-16
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A new, childlike robot has been unveiled which has the potential to play a musical instrument and which is already getting children excited about technology.

A new, childlike robot has been unveiled which has the potential to play a musical instrument and which is already getting children excited about technology.

ASIMO - which stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility - had its skills put to the test in front of an audience of classical music enthusiasts when it was asked to conduct the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

It later warmed up a crowd of 250 schoolchildren and impressed both the students and the symphony's musicians with its fluid, humanlike movements. ASIMO also ran, danced and kicked a football, to the delight of the students.

"It was phenomenal. I had no idea of the level people were developing robots," said Sam Pernick, a 16-year-old cellist from Detroit.

Despite its successful debut, ASIMO can only mimic the actions of a previously videotaped conductor and is unable to respond to musicians.

Even so, one of the orchestra's members said he could imagine a day when a robot could stand in for a conductor who could not make it to rehearsals.

"The future's full of possibilities we may not want to imagine," said bassist Rick Robinson.

Copyright © The Press Association 2008


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