History - P-Division-2018-2019/Team-11 GitHub Wiki
1.2 Gathering Pertinent Information
Origin: Humans are constantly fascinated by music-playing robots. There is something profoundly compelling about watching a mechanical being imitate the art and skill of playing a musical instrument. The latest crazy robot musical symphony comes in Automatica – a project that enlists several industrial robots to form a giant mechanical orchestra, with amazing and destructive results.
Given below are some of the existing solutions on musical bot.
Squarepusher x Z-Machines
In 2014, British musician Squarepusher teamed up with a group of Japanese robotics engineers who had developed Z-Machines, a band of robotic musicians. Using electronic signals and mechanical responses, they can play with greater speed and precision than any human. Squarepusher wrote the music with this in mind, and the result is some combination of prog-rock, jazz and 8-bit sound effects. German "metal" band Compressorhead uses technology similar to Z-Machines', but with more recognizable instruments—and they play more recognizable music: Motörhead's "Ace of Spades."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MluikyEQF4
Ro-Bow
While this may look like a violin on life support, it's actually a "kinetic sculpture" that uses electromagnetic actuators to move the bow, the robotic "fingers" and the violin itself. Unlike a human violinist who changes the angle of the bow for each string, the Ro-Bow changes the angle of the violin and keeps the bow straight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPTUM2_bxnQ
Toyota's violin robot
Another violin-playing robot? Toyota – yes, the Tercel people – unveiled a group of musical robots at the 2005 World Expo. This one, with its manual dexterity, was the most impressive. It even uses vibrato.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzjkBwZtxp4
The drone orchestra
When they're not delivering our packages or invading our airspace, drones can apparently play music. It may not be the popular interpretation of a robot, but this army of unmanned miniature helicopters uses their weight to play a medley of classic tunes on a bunch of custom instruments.