Honda's ASIMO robot to conduct Yo-Yo Ma and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra
By Joshua Topolsky 
posted April 23rd 2008 10:57AM
posted April 23rd 2008 10:57AM
posted April 23rd 2008 10:57AM
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will he get pissed if the cello guy starts too early?
Doesn't he have to climb a step or two to get to the conductor's stand? Uh-oh...
Hope hes got the latest service pack....
LEAVE ASIMO ALONE! WHY MUST YOU ALWAYS BRING UP THE BAD THINGS!?? [begins weeping] LEAVE ASIMO ALONE!!
Filthy hobbitises!
I skim-read that as:
"Honda's ASIMO robot to conduct Yo-Mama and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra"
Turns out I was wrong. You were lucky this time my little robotic friend....
+1 your comment is full of win, best of the day
Someday soon, someone's gonna pull up the little black shield on this guy and reveal his true identity - Kenny Baker!
Incidentally, does any one else get the feeling that his eyes bore deep deep into the very nether regions of your soul?
Or is it just me?
just you man, and your dancing MaryJane
well, maybe if he had eyes...
I wonder if Asimo will have the ability to glare incredulously at the brass section, bitch about intonation, or throw the baton in anger at the viola section for coming in late?
Easy onthe Violas! I am a violist and try not to be late. Those 1st and 2nd violins are to blame :D
Oh man, I hope he falls again... silly robot.
Stairs are for kids!
I was going to write the same thing.
Would be funny if he turns around to bow and he falls over.
Then you see 2-3 people in blue Honday jumpsuits run in front of him with a screen on wheels to cover him up like they do/did at Disneyland and other places when he falls! ROFL.
Does anybody else get the irony of a Honda product making headlines in the home city of the Big 3 American car companies?
I know noone cares any longer, but still....
I don't think anybody in Detroit will notice until ASIMO starts waving that stick at the workers in a GM plant.
Then the human revolution against their robotic overlords will be ON.
i was thinking the same thing scott. talk about a slap to the face.
btw, GM plants dont need ASIMO to go on strike, mutant. they have the UAW. example you ask? look at their lancing plant.
Actually, I find it most ironic that they're doing this in a town where many people have actually had their jobs replaced by robots over the years. One more job gone, I guess...
Actually, it'll be more work for those of us who repair the robots. :)
@Mutant: We'll notice. Not because it's a Honda product but because Yo-Yo Ma is performing.
@Scott K.: It really doesn't matter that much any longer. I think the blue collar workers around here would jump at the chance to work for any auto manufacturer, domestic or not, so even a little interest from Honda (or any automaker) might make them very happy.
@Happy Penguin:
That is, until, the repairbots replace your job.
Which can only be succeeded by self-repairable robots, rendering the repairbots obsolete.
Yeah... whatever.... Disney did this almost 70 years ago...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasia_(film)
haha pwnt.
Wait... why??? Oh, never mind...
I don't know the exact cost of Asimo, but you could just buy a metronome if you need something to keep time for you.
IT'S SO REAL!!!! WOW!!!
Asimo does it 'FAIL' style all the time quite literally and by accident. Send it to Mars I say where it will spend the rest of its MTBF alone on the face of the red planet trying to pick itself up whilst stuck in a reboot loop. Spirit and Opportunity will laugh at it!
Do you hear that, its not music but the sound of impending doom!
Bach to the future?
You are a bad person. =P
So, this robot made by Honda is going to be in Detroit? doesn't honda know that it might not be a good idea considering the big 3 automakers are around? i can see this being put in a car crusher.
Wait...Detroit can afford a Symphony Orchestra?
Who is it made up of? Hobos, failed hip hoppers and unemployed car workers?
They've had a symphony orchestra for quite a long time..it was founded in 1914!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Symphony_Orchestra
For compuguy1088:
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No thanks needed :)
This is cool, and would be even cooler if they were doing Jeff Mills' Blue Potential. ;)
-frank . count zero
http://www.deejaycountzero.com
Does the Detroit Symphony Orchestra have a gunfire section?
Yeah, we do. And if you don't clap we'll bust a cap in 'yo ass.
I'd so mess that piece up if I was in that orchestra, fighting for the humans, and of course to prevent sony getting into this and starting to fucking DRM live (classical) music.
seriously Honda, you've been flaunting that ASIMO crap for like 8 years now, HOW MUCH LONGER UNTIL WE CAN BUY ONE?!?!?
ASIMO sucks. Plain and simple.
Of all the work that's constantly being done on him.. There hasn't really been much damn improvement over the years.
Sony's "QRIO" was a HELL OF A LOT better then Asimo.
It's sad that Sony discontinued Qrio. Insane almost.
QRIO had so much better balance capabilities, running capabilities. (In the Guinness world book for running.)
Advanced face recognition and learning capabilities. You could talk to it and it would learn from you. And be able to have conversations with people.
It was.. dare I say.. "FUCKING AMAZING" lol.
Hopefully Sony has something secret planned for the future tho.(Hopefully.......)
I, for one, welcome our orchestra-conducting robotic overlords.
Sorry..