The first China International Consumer Products Expo was held during May 7-10 in Haikou, capital of south China’s Hainan province. The music robot “Crinoid” developed by CUG was invited to the Expo. “Crinoid”, with its “slick back haircut” and sunglasses, played hammered dulcimer together with a human music band, which appealed to a wide audience.
“Crinoid” is playing hammered dulcimer
“Crinoid” is developed by the music technology team led by Associate Professor ZHOU Li from the School of Arts and Communication, Prof. CHEN Xin and Associate Professor LIU Zhentao from the School of Automation. Based on the integration of the performing techniques of the Chinese National Orchestra, artificial intelligence, machine vision, and machine learning, the team designed a real-time robot control system based on ROS, which enables the robot to read music, compose music, and play the hammered dulcimer. With arms having 12 “degrees of freedom”, it is one of the most advanced music robots in China. It is promising in fields like art performances, science popularization education, music education, musical instrument detection, and entertainment services.
Front view photo of “Crinoid”
ZHAO Haishan,Vice Governor of Hubei Province is watching the performance
The China International Consumer Products Expo was co-hosted by the Ministry of Commerce and the People’s Government of Hainan Province. As China’s first national expo with the theme of consumer products, its' total exhibition area was about 80,000 square meters and attracted near 1,500 enterprises from about 70 countries and regions.
(Edited and translated from the Chinese version)
