Re: Mechanism behind trumpet playing robot?

Dec 23, 2007 3 Replies


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>>Doc wrote:
>>> Anyone know if it's an electronic oscillator with no air being passed
>>> through it or does it use a pressurized air stream? It's my
>>> understanding that a brass instrument doesn't HAVE to have air blown
>>> through it to work, that just happens to be the only way for a human
>>> to create the necessary vibrations.
>>>
>>>
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>>It sounds synthesized to me. Are you sure "he" is actually playing the horn?
>>Randy
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>I had the opposite feeling. It looks like he (it) is blowing air through
>it, and pressing keys on a real horn. With the polymers available these
>days it would be quite easy to make the proper interface to the horn's
>mouthpiece (along with the vibrations our lips make when we do it), and
>the programming to press the keys/buttons on the horn is trivial.

Before I even started the video I was saying that I bet the robot was big enough to contain an actual person.


It was



d
Pearce Consulting http://www.pearce.uk.com

Not if you examine the joints on his limbs. There is no way a person could be in there.

I did. Plenty of room.

d
Pearce Consulting http://www.pearce.uk.com

Nope. The arms are too long, and the "elbows" are too small for any man that would even come close to having arms that long to fit through. Also, a person with arms that long would be much taller than that robot is. The robot's arms are not proportioned to his body like those of ALL humans are.

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