Artist/roboticist teaching neural-net bots to love (and dance to) punk music

Michael sez, "Artist Fiddian Warman built some robots controlled by a neural network. neural networks can learn, so he's been playing them classic punk records in an attempt to turn them into robotic versions of his younger self. the robots are 2 metres tall and have the ability to pogo. It all culminates in a gig at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London (3-5 July 2008: bring your friends!). the artist has formed a punk band for the occasion: they're going to play to the robots and the audience and see if the robots dance." Link (Thanks, Michael!)

[#1 posted by dalziel_86 , June 23, 2008 5:29 AM]

This post was so much cooler when I misread the title as "teaching neural-net bots to love (and dance to) Daft Punk music"...

[#2 posted by Church , June 23, 2008 7:09 AM]

Six foot tall pogoing punk rock robots?

Help.

[#3 posted by Enochrewt , June 23, 2008 8:26 AM]

This was going to be the obligatory "Punk is Dead" post, but the Heavy Load story above brought tears to my eyes, so nevermind.