Toyota's robot plays the trumpet

[Analog]

A trumpet-playing robot has been developed by Japanese car maker Toyota.
It showed off its musical creation at a Tokyo hotel, where the robot played When You Wish Upon a Star on a trumpet.

The machine is the latest in a series of robots developed by Japanese companies to showcase their prowess in humanoid robotics.

Sony and Honda have both used humanoid robots to as a platform to demonstrate their computing power and engineering know-how.

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[Ikonomi]

I wonder whose robot would win in a fight.

 

[StageLeft]

That SEEMS impressive, but it's really when you get down to it only throwing a few extra moves between me pressing play and a CD playing the trumpet, or a player piano playing itself.

 

[NFS4]

A Toyota Blow Job Reliable and efficient

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: NFS4
A Toyota Blow Job Reliable and efficient

But forgettable.

 

[iwearnosox]

My kia love me long time.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Sifl
My kia love me long time.

oops

 

[AMCRambler]

Why do all these Japanese car companies feel they have to make robots to tout their engineering prowess? I don't see Ford or Chevy building robots. Maybe they're insecure as a 16 year old girls.

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: Ikonomi
I wonder whose robot would win in a fight.

Unfortunately, that's probably what it's going to come down to. Whose robot can win in a fight, a battle, a war, etc. etc.

 

[amcdonald]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
Why do all these Japanese car companies feel they have to make robots to tout their engineering prowess? I don't see Ford or Chevy building robots. Maybe they're insecure as a 16 year old girls.

Its because they are sitting on billions of dollars in cash and have no way to spend it.

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: amcdonald

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
Why do all these Japanese car companies feel they have to make robots to tout their engineering prowess? I don't see Ford or Chevy building robots. Maybe they're insecure as a 16 year old girls.

Its because they are sitting on billions of dollars in cash and have no way to spend it.

That, and the fact that the domestics are losing enough sleep trying to figure out how not to lose more ground to the japs, than lose more trying to create a robot.

 

[KEV1N]

This leads the way to a robot jumping out of your trunk to fill your gas! While playing the trumpet!

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: KEV1N
This leads the way to a robot jumping out of your trunk to fill your gas! While playing the trumpet!

No, no. Robot that gives you a blow job and then converts that into fuel. You don't even need to pull into a gas station! I think you'd wanna pull over though, roads won't be safe with all those bj drivers.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Originally posted by: AMCRambler
Why do all these Japanese car companies feel they have to make robots to tout their engineering prowess? I don't see Ford or Chevy building robots. Maybe they're insecure as a 16 year old girls.

It's a difference in Japanese vs. American companies. American car companies make cars. Japanese companies are often conglomerates. Often the conglomerates are family run and passed from generation to generation.

Toyota, for instance, has Housing, Information & Communications, Finacial Activities, Biotech, Marine, and Industrial Equipment divisions. As shown here.

It's a difference between American companies and (some) Asian companies.

Insecure 16 year old Japanese girls are hot in a dirty sorta way.

 

[opticalmace]

rofl! "The robot has yet to be given a cute name."

 

[Howard]

It looks like a Stormtrooper!

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: Howard
It looks like a Stormtrooper!

I was thinking more Princess Leia (lbs++;, though) in a white chocolate glaze, but okay.

 

[Amorphus]

Also - if it actually manipulates "lips" to play the trumpet properly, that is a very impressive achievement. Proper embosure is hard to learn as it is, and teaching a robot to do it would be even harder.

MaD PrOpZzZzZzzz....

 

[gistech1978]

Originally posted by: opticalmace
rofl! "The robot has yet to be given a cute name."

its gotta be called Louis.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

lol @ the robot's fixed hole as a mouth...looks...fitting for ur avg.. japanese.. man :Q :Q :Q *i jk!!!! runs!!!!!*

maybe make a "cute name" around that...


anyway...it may not be as impressive as sony's insane running dancing robot, but still it takes smarts and ingenuity to create a machine like that.......