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Scientists train robots to love punk music

July 4, 2008 · Print This Article

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We’ve seen plenty of robots that are capable of showing their appreciation for music, but few have as refined a taste as that trio of bots designed by a team of UK artists and scientists, which have been trained to like punk music and nothing else. That was apparently done by employing “adaptive resonance theory,” which allows the robots to build up a history of patterns relating to different sounds, and analyze songs on the fly, matching the patterns against other types

of music it has already listened to. As you can see in the BBC’s video available at the read link below, the bot’s were apparently easily able to recognize a band that they hadn’t heard before and, whether you rush, you can actually check ‘em out first hand, as they’ll be doing their thing at London’s Institute of contemporary Arts until July 5th.

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[Source] Donald Melanson

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