Feb 17
We have talked about the all-robot band Compressorhead before at the beginning of last year, and it seems that they have competition from another 3-piece robot band from Japan, known as Z-Machines. In fact, Z-Machines’ “guitarist” is unique in a sense where it features a whopping 78 fingers (!), while the drummer would perform at an insane level thanks to 22 arms attached to the body. The band’s creator worked alongside composer Squarepusher at first as an attempt to explore the creation of music using robots, but in the end, they ended up with a whole five track album.
Robot Guitarist Plays With 78 Fingers original content from Ubergizmo. 
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There is nothing quite like nature itself to provide the kind of inspiration for humanity to improve itself. After all, was it not the thought of soaring in the skies with the rest of the birds that led man to create the aeroplane? Well, this time around, termites are the catalyst for robots which are able to stack up blocks without the need for a central plan, and we are not even talking about a random mess here, but rather, simple structures coming to life along the way. Scientists have used the way termites work as a model to develop tiny robots which are able to churn out a simple structure without the need for any prior blueprint.
