Robot Sings Still Alive

By JoCo November 19, 2007

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