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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[They can play those instruments better than me, so it's something... when they start playing Bass Guitar, let me know.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shadowise]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 4:02AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[eh its not bass but close enough<br><br><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/08/the-crazy-j-guitar-playing-robot/" rel="nofollow">http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/08/the-crazy-j-guitar-playing-robot/</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[vdogg89]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 6:48PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ooh! And they're playing LUPIN III'rd theme song!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Teejay]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 4:23AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yeah, how cool is that. I was kinda expecting them to play the Cantina song from Star Wars Episode 4. That would be cool]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Adder Snake]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 17th 2008 10:55AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[They should have them play Rockband]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[nxtiak]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 4:25AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[So they have buzzing lips and airflow?? cool]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 4:30AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[Exactly. They're not even moving their fingers to key the different notes. This is robot lip-sync, not robot performance.<br><br><br>The drummer is the only one who might even possibly be playing music, the rest are robto air-guitarists with worse instruments.<br><br>There's something really wrong about watching robots with no mouths play wind instruments.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[LarryLarryLarry]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 5:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[Actually, in the video, they are moving their fingers to key the different notes.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cassini]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 6:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[If Jack wasn't dead, he'd cry. In fact, looking around the world, he'd be too busy crying about other stuff than to even notice this travesty. Sometimes, you just cannot take it all in.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bad Beaver]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 4:42AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[On the other hand, I think Burroughs would like this. Those bots would have run on certain human liquids and feature some interesting orifices, bristling with razorblades and needles, but he'd like them.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bad Beaver]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 4:47AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[Neat... However I can't imagine these ever replacing real performers or contributing anything useful to robotics except for replacing those horribly creepy animatronic animals at Chuck E. Cheese. At least it gives us a hint at the future of design of electronics design, in the future everything electronic will be white and will glow blue. Cause, ya know, it looks cool.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nick]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 5:23AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[that was one short ass video, is that Lupin III?<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 5:42AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=oQSe4Z1cH4E" rel="nofollow">http://youtube.com/watch?v=oQSe4Z1cH4E</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[stevedeleo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 12:19PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[i saw this at chuck e cheese's before it was great!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[cysko]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 5:43AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[This isn't that exciting - these Toyota robots were playing musical instruments YEARS AGO on public display at the World Expo in Nagoya in 2005.... there they made up for the lack of robot emotion and action by an over zealous human announcer.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Geggs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 6:16AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[Damn.... When I first saw the photo I thought they were holding weapons.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Lai]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 8:08AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[I for one welcome our new robot overlords!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryback]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 8:47AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[That's pretty cool. If a composer could control an ensemble of these, that would be really cool.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[couchpundit]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 11:13AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[That is cool,<br><br>Even if they were all preprogrammed to perform excactly in sync, still good. They actually played the music pretty well..<br><br>And the music was quite catchy.. Lupin IIIrd you say?. That cartoon show?.. It had this catchy music?..<br>Gotta watch it now..]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SurKaz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 11:40AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[Welcome to the bottom deep of the uncanny valley.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Magallanes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 11:56AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[Those things seriously give me the jibblies.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 11:59AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA["come on in here!!"]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[kyle allen]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 2:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[Who said they were not moving their fingers?  Look closer dude.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DilRod]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 16th 2008 6:00PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Video: Toyota's robo-quartet makes Kerouac cry]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/16/video-toyotas-robo-quartet-makes-kerouac-cry/</guid><description><![CDATA[I saw the robot trumpet player up close (ten feet) last year at the toyota Grand Prix here in town. As a music teacher, I was curious to see what was going on up close. What I can tell you is that there is no buzzing whatsoever. The mouthpiece is is not a real mouthpiece. As the robot dude brought the trumpet to his "mouth," a small tube popped out of the mouthpiece and inserted into the hole in his face. What that means, I have no idea except that it wasn't the real thing. The "performance" was actually kinda boring after the first minute. About as exciting as watching my coffee pot brew coffee. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jackkerouac127]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 17th 2008 8:42PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>