Linux powered robot can play clarinet

Posted by jenwren1010 on Jun 20, 2008 11:40 PM EDT
ITWire; By Davey Winder
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Strange but true: an Australian Linux powered robot has beaten off stiff competition from a Dutch guitar playing robot and a Finnish robotic pianist to win a major science competition...

Taking place in Athens, Greece, the Artemis Orchestra competition challenges contestants from higher education establishments and universities to build robotic devices that play real musical instruments. More to the point, it challenges them to play well. The NICTA/UNSW Linux powered robot was the culmination of eight months effort by the winning team. It will now be used in order to help students at the UNSW School of Physics' Acoustics Lab to better understand human musician gesturing.

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