Guitar HeroNoid will melt your face off at Guitar Hero

Screw robots that play real instruments, the new hotness is all about robots that play fake instruments. Like, video game fake instruments, as in Guitar Hero. Enter Guitar HeroNoid, the real robot that shreds fake axe and melts real face. Supposedly capable of seeing the screen and jamming with the best of us meatsacks, we think it's time we show these would-be robot overlords what's what. You may be more efficient at manual tasks, robots, but hell no do you have the soul of a musician. And hell no can you reach that wammy bar -- yet!

[DWells55 @ Mar 19th 2007 7:53PM]

Now there's a solution for the Uncanny Valley.

[akintz @ Mar 19th 2007 8:12PM]

I'm sure if they just spun the whammy bar around, "he" could reach it with his pinky.

Oh... ironic tidbit... I'm watching I, Robot right now.

[Anthony @ Mar 19th 2007 8:17PM]

Someone is compensating for something...

[Matt @ Mar 19th 2007 8:25PM]

The damn thing has five fingers! What a cheater!

[Brian @ Mar 20th 2007 5:21PM]

so do normal people, he just has them in different places. dont make fun of his disability :P

[MC2009 @ Mar 19th 2007 9:03PM]

Cool... except... I thought we were supposed to play the games?

[PeteC @ Mar 19th 2007 9:14PM]

I for one will not welcome our Guitar Hero playing robot overlords until they can battle me in the truest form of musical expression. Air Guitar.

[guidedbyvoip @ Mar 19th 2007 9:55PM]

Screw competing against the robot. I want to be the one to control the robot controlling the guitar controller.

[JeBuZac @ Mar 19th 2007 10:09PM]

Wouldn't it make more sense for them to make him play an ACTUAL guitar?

[TSP @ Mar 19th 2007 10:13PM]

Doing a search on YouTube, this thing really isn't as impressive as it should be--methinks the software behind it needs some tweaking.

[Nick @ Mar 20th 2007 11:11AM]

I agree... the thing failed out on one of the first round songs on easy.. i hear more "dinks" then "guitar notes" being played by this humanoid hunk o' junk. I think software needs lots of tweeking and that the programmers had a case of premature exposulation with showing this thing off before it was impressive. I agree with MATT... its cheating to give a "humanoid" more fingers than a non mutated human.

[Chase @ Mar 20th 2007 12:01AM]

someone should inform them that the only thing worse than watching someone else playing video games is watching a robot playing video games.


Coincidentally, the best thing in the world is actually playing video games.

[KazorLOD @ Mar 20th 2007 1:57AM]

Guitar Heronoid? Jeezus, it sounds like something I should be putting cream on...

[MAIcrosoft @ Mar 20th 2007 6:14AM]

KONAMI WILL SUE D:

[Greg @ Mar 20th 2007 8:32AM]

The minute I saw this thing, I thought of www.capturedbyrobots.com. My band opened up for them a year or two ago- This guy built an entire band of robots that actually play the instruments- no tape loops or anything. It looks like very similar technology to what he was using.

[Nick @ Mar 20th 2007 11:15AM]

Did the person who wrote and submitted the abstract even take a look at this thing in action?

The only way it will melt my face is from how horrible this damn thing is at playing.. and it is most definately not "capable of jamming with the best of us meatsacks"...

[Brian @ Mar 20th 2007 1:31PM]

This is F ed up, I want to battle REAL guitar heros on those xbox360 leaderboards, with this guy we can never be true heros cuz he'll always be #1 :( :( :(