Puzzling Rubik's Cube

Many times I tried to arrange the cube in the order. But I failed because it was very hard to get the idea of getting it arranged in the order.

Now it is very amazing to see that someone has 'videoised' in a very creative manner! See how it is!!



:) Great idea..!

Yamaha's Singing Robot

One of the wonderful invention in the series of Robots & embedded systems development was introduced by Yamaha, Japan. The robot can speak/ sing according to a given music sheet using the speech synthesis software named 'VOCALOID'. The movements of lips & face are also pre-programmed.



Osamu Oshima, an official of Yamaha explains about the exclusive features of this robot:

"This robot itself has several joints, so it can walk & move using battery power. Now we've combined the robot with VOCALOID technology for the first time. With VOCALOID, if you provide lyrics and a melody, the software synthezises a singing voice on the spot in real time.

Here we're teaching the robot lyrics and melodies prepared in advance, like those you've just heard, and simultaneously controlling its lip movements plus simple expressions and head movements. Also we've achieved collaboration between robots, while controlling the automatic piano called 'Disklavier' over there.

Some of the lip movements were synchronized with pre-defined movements, and some are 'CEATEC specials' created on the spot."

Yamaha is now focusing on production of such kind of robots 'who' can be more 'live' & capable of interacting with humans by the help of advanced technologies. Let us wait & see.