After a Long Day in the Factory, These Robots Just Want to Rock Out and Destroy the Place

September 16, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

This seriously could be the coolest music video you’ll see all month. And it might give you a few nightmares,

For this new project called Automatica, engineer/musician/mad scientist Nigel Stanford collected together some industrial robots–you know, the kind of multi-articulated monsters that makes cars–and created a mechanical orchestra that not only plays a series of real musical instruments but also scratch on a couple of turntables.

All goes very well for our musical mad scientist until the cutting lasers come out…

Learn more at New Atlas.

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is an internationally known broadcaster, interviewer, writer, consultant, blogger and speaker. In his 40+ years in the music business, Alan has interviewed the biggest names in rock, from David Bowie and U2 to Pearl Jam and the Foo Fighters. He’s also known as a musicologist and documentarian through programs like The Ongoing History of New Music.

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