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It really doesn’t though. Limited by zero upper body flexibility, all arm motions displayed here are not in any way organic and don’t surpass the capabilities o

It really doesn’t though. Limited by zero upper body flexibility, all arm motions displayed here are not in any way organic and don’t surpass the capabilities of say, an orchestrion

tjoff 4y ago
Doesn't seem like that was the intention?
collin128 4y ago
I agree with you and I'm willing to give them some liberties because they worked a pun into the headline. It sounded super robotic but I wonder if that was a function of how it was programmed instead of the drumming capabilities of the robot.
- TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
  It's hard to know if they've really solved the problem. It looks suspiciously like they're using a very basic MIDI -> gesture look up table with a very limited range of context-dependent extensions. And no expression or dynamics. That would make it a toy project, about forty years behind the state of the art. http://pinktentacle.com/2008/04/video-wabot-2-android-plays-keyboard-1985/ http://pinktentacle.com/2008/04/video-wabot-2-android-plays-...
  - squeaky-clean 4y ago
    It is just using MIDI, and it doesn't look like it has velocity support, that drum kit definitely has velocity clamped to 127 to make it sound more consistent. They claim it's solving whole-body trajectories with self-collision avoidance, which is pretty cool IMO. But I don't really see any sequences in the demo that had any risk of collision and couldn't be done with simpler motion mapping. Show us some rudiments on the toms!
NegativeLatency 4y ago
I was expecting something with some style/personality and the performance in the video was so flat. I feel like you could script that performance out manually and have it be the same.
- tomxor 4y ago
  I would be surprised if it wasn't scripted, the movements are so angular and linear. I can only see ML being involved if the ML's interface was an over simplified model with all of the individual movements pre-scripted, i.e only allowing it to decide when to position limbs and onto which drums, but not how, which isn't much of an achievement. It smells of lies and hype. I could be wrong but either way the result hardly looks groundbreaking.

It really doesn’t though. Limited by zero upper body flexibility, all arm motions displayed here are not in any way organic and don’t surpass the capabilities of say, an orchestrion

tjoff 4y ago

Doesn't seem like that was the intention?

collin128 4y ago

I agree with you and I'm willing to give them some liberties because they worked a pun into the headline. It sounded super robotic but I wonder if that was a function of how it was programmed instead of the drumming capabilities of the robot.

TheOtherHobbes 4y ago
It's hard to know if they've really solved the problem. It looks suspiciously like they're using a very basic MIDI -> gesture look up table with a very limited range of context-dependent extensions. And no expression or dynamics. That would make it a toy project, about forty years behind the state of the art. http://pinktentacle.com/2008/04/video-wabot-2-android-plays-keyboard-1985/ http://pinktentacle.com/2008/04/video-wabot-2-android-plays-...
- squeaky-clean 4y ago
  It is just using MIDI, and it doesn't look like it has velocity support, that drum kit definitely has velocity clamped to 127 to make it sound more consistent. They claim it's solving whole-body trajectories with self-collision avoidance, which is pretty cool IMO. But I don't really see any sequences in the demo that had any risk of collision and couldn't be done with simpler motion mapping. Show us some rudiments on the toms!

NegativeLatency 4y ago

I was expecting something with some style/personality and the performance in the video was so flat. I feel like you could script that performance out manually and have it be the same.

tomxor 4y ago
I would be surprised if it wasn't scripted, the movements are so angular and linear. I can only see ML being involved if the ML's interface was an over simplified model with all of the individual movements pre-scripted, i.e only allowing it to decide when to position limbs and onto which drums, but not how, which isn't much of an achievement. It smells of lies and hype. I could be wrong but either way the result hardly looks groundbreaking.