andrew_jordan

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So... why don't we just ask Toyota? Trumpet is a mechanized process now.

Drew

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YouTube - Toyota Partner Robot Playing the Trumpet

even double-tongues. awesome. so it's all mechanics now. or was it ever anything otherwise?

MaynardTrumpet

I've seen it before, and I find it way too hard to believe...I don't understand how it can use air, tongue, and have such perfect tone...Just can't. If it's real, then that's just dissenter grading.

bagmangood

It makes sense,
tone is mostly a product of steady air, and a robot would produce very, very steady airflow
My teacher actually used this analogy for years, i'd never actually heard of a real one...

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Is it actually producing sound through that horn, or just pushing the buttons to a recording?

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Miyot

If you guys even think for a second this is real, I've got a nice piece of bottom land for sale, real cheap.

Schwab

It is real, read up on it. All it needs is something to push air against two membranes that vibrate and something to adjust the tension of the membranes...voila, a trumpet player.

I was in Japan a few years ago and while I didn't see the Asimo play the trumpet, I did see one in action at the science museum in Tokyo. It is a pretty amazing piece of technology. I want one. Bad.

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wilcox96

Dylan...I didn't realize you were "that" lonely on the road. hahaha.

You should have spent more time schmoozing that waitress at the place we ate at. She would be a much more fun companion than "any" robot...

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MJ

Step your game Dylan and leave the poor trumpet playing robots alone!

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godchaser

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We-ll... not so sure there BW. They got some Babe-Bots coming out that'll knock our socks off. :) Seems like they held the first think-tank in Japan last year, trying to outline the moral legalities of Robotics. So called sex-slaves being just the beginning of the headaches. This with the understanding that human-equivalent intelligence in machines, (and far beyond) is a hop and'a skip from today. Not that such adequate programming can't be droned down as well.

To hear it told; by more than just a few in the tech-know hussle. We'll be taking full advantage of Robotics as well. Mind upload anyone- Literal immortality something you'd care to partake- :) One of the seeming advantages would be our synthetic skin for example, that can be made far more sensitive to touch. As well, performance pleasure enhanced to unimagined heights. Wheeeew; that sounds like some serious spikes in paternity suits waiting to happen. And if better than human synthetics don't suit our birthday style, we can opt for Diamonoid or Ruby chassis' too. Virtually indestructible, and if we did happen to explode when the earth moved, no worries. We got backups that'll have us downloaded back in our spare chassis in a flash. All a part of the warranty, you understand.

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'..so it's all mechanics now. or was it ever anything otherwise?'

Suppose not Drew- the mechanics of nature's no less human than machine?




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