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DJ I-Bot and Proto-Jazz-One: Robotic Jazz Funk

by Mark F. Turner
April 1, 2005

Now this may seem simply blasphemous: Robots performing jazz music? Well the scientists at Toyota and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have collaborated on this new release which features “DJ I-Bot, (the first random-access, analog robotic DJ system) and Proto-Jazz-One (a humanoid robot which plays various musical instruments.)

This new CD should come as no surprise as today's DJ's have taken full advantage of the current technologies making use of sampling, mixing, and editing of sounds from endless sources. “Sound Chemists" like ...