Robot Sings Still Alive
First I thought this was computer animation, but it’s footage of an actual robot built by Interbots, a crazy robot-making company that spun off from a crazy robot-making project at Carnegie Mellon. Hooray for robots!
First I thought this was computer animation, but it’s footage of an actual robot built by Interbots, a crazy robot-making company that spun off from a crazy robot-making project at Carnegie Mellon. Hooray for robots!
Comments
boingo says
That was weird, I especially like the way the color change to reflect the moods of the song...
Jesse Thorn says
Best comment ever:
"I can't wait until robots get suffisticated [sic]. I want a robot friend."
Colleenky says
What's up with the dogfish? :-)
Glenn says
I loved the dogfish! I assumed it was the result of Science.
Mark B. from Austin TX says
I happened on this neat cello instrumental of 'Still Alive' while looking around YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNY2d747b-o&feature=related
BTW, I saw your show in Austin and it was great. I hope you add 'Still Alive' to your live reportoire. It's about the only thing that would have made the show better. Come back please, I'll go again, and bring half a dozen friends this time!
Janet says
I think that is a cake on the ground in front of Moxi. A cupcake in one of those new footy-style silicon cupcake minipans they are selling at the houseware stores.
Rioexxo says
WHAAaaaaT!?!?!?!?!? Like i can't tune my own guitar without a robot????!?!?!?!?!
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Qaein says
so, y'know how she looks at the beginning of the second verse? That's pretty much the spitting image I get when I think of "Creepy Doll"... Just thought I should throw that out there
Tesseract says
"I'm not angry" - Eyes go blazing red....
Reminded me of Gir out of Invader Zim... One moment cute and friendly, the next homicidal...
Though it does say something about how much a robots eye colour can affect the way it interacts with humans...
Mark B. from Austin TX says
Other treats: disco remix of still alive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJp_PTutGrA&feature=related
Another remix: (not with the Jonathan Coulton music, but lots of samples from the game) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3KiVpdwLWY&feature=related
Bob says
This is the first step towards a warrior robot race.
I'll be hiding in my bunker now.
brady says
Hey if you like singing robots try http://www.capturedbyrobots.com/ Captured by Robots...the only human in the band built all the robots that play with him....
Mark B. from Austin TX says
One more: Jonathan performs 'Still Alive' solo, with a guitar (while some dude eats cake)--http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxNmeMklFk8
This is a really good version, but it also kind of shows how good Ellen McLean is. In Jonathan's hands it's a relly good song, but when Ellen sings it, GlaDos becomes alive and real. Coulton's vocals are great, but for this song, McLean's are better. Not a surprize, since it was written for her character, so it a way it shows what a good songwriter JoCo is, too.
Mark B. from Austin TX says
The stupic comment parser munged up turning the URL into a link. Somebody needs to hire a better code monkey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxNmeMklFk8