{"id":10817,"date":"2014-04-28T18:51:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T01:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10817"},"modified":"2014-04-28T18:55:04","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T01:55:04","slug":"drone-rock-robotics-company-creates-a-flying-musical-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/drone-rock-robotics-company-creates-a-flying-musical-band","title":{"rendered":"Drone rock: Robotics company creates a flying, musical band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/author\/samred\/\" rel=\"author\">Sam Machkovech<\/a> \u2014 ars technica<br \/>\n<iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qlqe1DXnJKQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/> Up until this point, the musical genre known as \u201cdrone rock\u201d had been a weird, indie niche that consisted of slow, loud guitar noise. If machinists and programmers have their way, that description will need some major rewriting\u2014but it\u2019ll probably seem just as weird.<\/p>\n<p>This week, a team at Philadelphia-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmelrobotics.com\/index.php?n=Main.HomePage\">KMel Robotics<\/a>, known for building airborne video recording solutions, turned their robot-making talents to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qlqe1DXnJKQ\">creating a band<\/a>. The company pre-programmed a six-aircraft ensemble to hover over instruments and strum or strike without any human interaction, other than the team\u2019s initial strike of a \u201cplay\u201d button.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2014\/04\/drone-rock-robotics-company-creates-a-flying-musical-band\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Machkovech \u2014 ars technica Up until this point, the musical genre known as \u201cdrone rock\u201d had been a weird, indie niche that consisted of slow, loud guitar noise. If machinists and programmers have their way, that description will need some major rewriting\u2014but it\u2019ll probably seem just as weird. This week, a team at Philadelphia-based [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}