Mr. Future

Artbot builder Ranjit Bhatnagar has taught his theremin-playing robot, Lev, to cover Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy”, as an electro-mechanical tribute to The Ether and Aether Experiment’s brilliant theremin adaptation of the song. (Video Here)

Link (via Make)

 Update:  Lev also does an …  interesting version of Patsy Kline’s “Crazy” as well.   Video is here.

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While other robotic (and robot-assisted) musical groups have employed everything from robot guitarists to electro-mechanical xylophones, Maywa Denki is the first to use a true robot vocalist.

The music group/concept art/design company Maywa Denki has brought the world some incredible “Nonsense Machines“, music machines, and toys. But their robotic vocalist, shown in this “product demonstration video” along with their robotic “Mecha Folk” quartet, is over the top brilliant.

The robotic vocalist, dubbed “Seamoons,” is a combination of mechanical bellows and a computer controlled rubber vocal chord that’s monitored and modified in real time, sounding something like a tiny electric Yma Sumac.

Link to the Maywa Denki web site.
Links (1,2,3) to the two Maywa Denki product demonstration and a (completely mad) performance video. (via Metafilter)

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Re-animating the long-forgotten corpses of ShowBiz Pizza / Chuck E Cheese animatronic characters, who have truly sinned, programmer ChrisThrash shows us a brief glimpse of the afterlife that awaits wayward machines.

Chris’ brilliant Dante-esque series of youTube videos not only take us through the ironic punishments of Robot Hell, but also provides a humble look into the work that goes into the programming of the doomed.

(Warning: Video Content may violate Asimov’s First Law.)

Link (via RP, Thanks! Also: Crave and BoingBoing )

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Just a Friday Quickie:

Here, without fanfare, is the hit music video “The Humans Are Dead,” From HBO’s “The Flight of the Conchords.”

Be sure to watch the credits for the noteworthy binary solo.

(Via Randallmus. Thanks!)

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