LIANE HANSEN, host: While the Spectrum engineers were showing off their gizmos in New York, Toyota were showing off its latest technological phenomenon on the other side of the world.</s>LIANE HANSEN, host: A robot played the violin in Tokyo this past week. The performance may have lacked soul, but the performer was impressive nonetheless. The all-white robot stood five feet tall. It bowed with its right arm, and it pressed the strings of the violin with the mechanical fingers of its left hand.
A robot played the violin in Japan, and the people went wild. We hear a bit of the performance.