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Article: We, robots.(Artifact)(singing robots)(Brief article)
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- Reason
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- February 1, 2009
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MEET EDUARDO MIRANDA'S singing robots. Miranda is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research at the University of Plymouth. He built these two warbling toasters, gave them both a vocal range and the ability to adapt, then put them in a room together for two weeks. They went in singing radically different "tunes"--random sequences of six notes at a time--and came out crooning an oddly haunting duet consisting of about 20 sounds.
The robots have simplified vocal cords, and their voices are strangely human. They also have microphones for ears and cameras for eyes. Their song was ...
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