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Linux powered robot can play clarinet E-mail
by Davey Winder   
Saturday, 21 June 2008
However, when the obvious question of whether it is better than a human being from a purely musical perspective is asked, the equally obvious answer if forthcoming. No.

"Its not as good as a human" Judge admits "there are tricky things a human can do with a clarinet that it cant do, yet." What it can do, and indeed did during the Artemis Orchestra competition, was play a rendition of Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee as well as Ravel's Bolero.

Truth be told, I can play neither on the clarinet nor any other musical instrument for that matter. I am a dab hand with Guitar Hero, but I doubt I would win any awards for that.

NICTA, a national organisation with labs in Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne and Sydney, was established in 2002 with a simple objective: to become a world-class research institute and centre of excellence as far as science and innovation are concerned.

With the debut of this Linux powered musical robot, I think you can safely say it is living the dream...
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