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January 25th, 2010, 19:20
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From parade appearances (http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/caption-contest-49-foot-asimo-makes-trees-dancers-look-tiny/) to his most recent star turn at Sundance (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/22/asimo-stars-in-living-with-robots-promises-not-to-forget-the-l/), it looks like Asimo's re-invention as a song-and-dance man continues unabated. Most recently, those crazy intellectual property lawyers-cum-bloggers at Stamoulis & Weinblatt, LLC have hepped us to a patent app in Honda's name that describes a robot that can not only pick up a beat and dance along, but recognize the tune and sing its lyrics as well. The latter is accomplished by a wide array of techno-stuff, including a "sound collecting unit," a "voice signal generating unit" capable of both scat singing and singing singing, a "self-vocalized voice regulating unit," and more. As far as the dancing goes, the application implies that it has something to do with a "beat interval estimating unit" and a "beat time reliability calculating unit," although we like to believe that the automaton learned to dance the way grandpa did -- from Arthur Murray on West 57th Street in Manhattan.
Asimo learns to sing and dance, but has yet to learn how to love (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/asimo-learns-to-sing-and-dance-but-has-yet-to-learn-how-to-love/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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From parade appearances (http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/19/caption-contest-49-foot-asimo-makes-trees-dancers-look-tiny/) to his most recent star turn at Sundance (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/22/asimo-stars-in-living-with-robots-promises-not-to-forget-the-l/), it looks like Asimo's re-invention as a song-and-dance man continues unabated. Most recently, those crazy intellectual property lawyers-cum-bloggers at Stamoulis & Weinblatt, LLC have hepped us to a patent app in Honda's name that describes a robot that can not only pick up a beat and dance along, but recognize the tune and sing its lyrics as well. The latter is accomplished by a wide array of techno-stuff, including a "sound collecting unit," a "voice signal generating unit" capable of both scat singing and singing singing, a "self-vocalized voice regulating unit," and more. As far as the dancing goes, the application implies that it has something to do with a "beat interval estimating unit" and a "beat time reliability calculating unit," although we like to believe that the automaton learned to dance the way grandpa did -- from Arthur Murray on West 57th Street in Manhattan.
Asimo learns to sing and dance, but has yet to learn how to love (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/25/asimo-learns-to-sing-and-dance-but-has-yet-to-learn-how-to-love/) originally appeared on Engadget (http://www.engadget.com) on Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:06:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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