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Music students build a robot orchestra that can improvise

By Charlie Jane Anders Published May 31, 2010, 1:30 pm ET

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NPR has an amazing story about music students building the Karmetic Machine Orchestra, a set of robots that play sitars, bass guitars and pianos, plus weird made-up instruments. And they’re programmed with complex improvisation. And it’s compared to robot sex.

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