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Z-Machines a Full Robot Band

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Looks like technology is taking over. Now we have a robot band only in Japan. The Robots produce instrumental music, it is pretty cool. Listen to their music below

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Once they've finished hunting us down, it looks like the machines will be able to put on a good show to celebrate. The all-robot band, Z-Machines, have been making erratic appearances across Japan since early Summer, and Maker Faire Tokyoseemed like the most appropriate place to show off some actuated ax-grinding. They were without the third member, the keyboard-playing, laser-shooting Cosmos, but that didn't detract from a spectacle that drew in university students, older professor-types and stroller-pushing families alike. The live performance lasted roughly ten minutes, prefaced by a quick intro and explanation from the team that built them, but two songs was more than enough to make the crowd cheer and whoop: the robots will be repeating the show six times each day of the Maker Faire, but it's not as if they're going to tire. The guitarist (Mach) wields two guitars, while we counted just over 20 drumsticks connected to Ashura, with plenty of pneumatic piping on both robots to ensure they connect with their respective instruments.

 

source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/03/z-machines-robot-band-maker-faire/

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Interesting...

 

Sounds pretty good though.

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the zima ad in the end of the video threw me off so bad

 

thought the video was really cool but it was very creepy aswell.

We are just not use to that type of "Thing" performing music, but I bet as years pass people will accept this type of performance. 

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This is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. It was like a Matrix inspired musical performance.... Okay when it's put that way it sounds a little worrisome, but still frikkin cool.

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This is pretty cool, the music sounded good, too.

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All that guitar shredding at around 4:05, and Buckethead still does it faster. :P

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