DALTON TANONAKA, CNN ANCHOR: Heavy metal has taken on new meaning in Thailand. An inventor there has given music fans a new band to cheer on. CNN's Denise Dillon has the story.</s>DENISE DILLON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This may be one the world's first robotic musicians. An inventor in Thailand has made four instrument-playing robots to create an entire band. The group made its musical debut as this technology fair in Bangkok. Musicians were designed and created by an inventor and his engineering students at King Mongkut's (ph) Institute of Technology in Bangkok. Right now, they only play traditional Thai music.</s>MASAYOS MAGMEE, INVENTOR (through translator): I make the robots play traditional music because, it gets children interested in science and technology.</s>DILLON: the robots electronic brains are programmed to trigger small pumps, which is how they blow air into the instruments, and their electronic hands and fingers are programmed to play certain Tunes. the main instruments so far are the reed pipe and bamboo flute. But the inventor hopes to expand to other instruments.</s>MAGMEE (through translator): These robots have been designed to play Thai instruments to play Thai instruments in Thailand, but in the future, we are hoping to make ones that can play the saxophone, and maybe they can be sent overseas.</s>DILLON: And once they get their play list, the, the next step is choreography, getting the robots to move to their music. Denise, Dillon, CNN.
Heavy Metal Takes on New Meaning in Thailand