Take a Look the First Musical Robot

Re:Take a Look the First Musical Robot by Dambalala on Sunday November 23, 2025 @03:29AM (#46021775)

This is fun. It's the sort of pet that has gone viral before.

One thing.. Calling any device "the first musical robot" ignores some interesting and important parts of well documented computational history that predate this product by hundreds of years:

Self playing organs(1800's), pianos(1800's), musical clocks(1500/1600's).. Things like this have existed for ages as fully automated and programmable musical "robots". They shaped 19th century ideas about computation. Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage explicitly referenced musical automata in their work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaucanson_Flute_Player here's a cool example

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Re:Take a Look the First Musical Robot by etiennebausson on Sunday November 23, 2025 @02:45PM (#46026642)

No idea if that marketing come from arrogance or lack or research, but it doesn't endear me to the product.

Basically a speaker on wheel with a screen.

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