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Robot band The Trons are internet sensation

telegraph.co.uk — A New Zealand man has created a robotic rock band that has broken free of the bedroom to become internet sensations.

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username7410, on 06/30/2008, -0/+12YouTube video mentioned in article:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=c2JChnwv2Ws
PATSCRU, on 06/30/2008, -0/+11Maywa Denki kicks the ***** out of this and has been doing robotic/mechanical music for years. He does tons of weird research at his lab and has made hundreds of mechanical/robotic/pneumatic instruments. No offense to the trons, but Maywa Denki makes them seem like tinkertoys:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Hnx3P2V4pRQ&feature=rel ...

skip to 2:22 to be amazed.
billbugger, on 06/30/2008, -0/+9my toaster is a groupie
bwjacket, on 06/30/2008, -0/+8domo arigato
Yibn, on 06/30/2008, -2/+10Not as good as Daft Punk. =p
morrisonm, on 06/30/2008, -2/+9Captured! By Robots did it first and does it better.

http://www.capturedbyrobots.com/
koolto, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6Now I know who has the biggest scores on Rock Band.
victorycig, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5Does Telegraph not get that they're a website? They're allowed to insert hyperlinks in articles.
bwjacket, on 06/30/2008, -2/+6Daft Punk is playing at my house.
mecharabbit, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4Daft Punk is people!!!
koenigje, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4I really wasn't that impressed with it......I mean yah it takes time to do, but next time make a program that creates a good song
billbugger, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3can't, you commented.
morrisonm, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3Yes, http://youtube.com/results?search_query=captured+b ...
columbusgeek, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3Why the heck didn't the article link to the YouTube video? Thats lazy reporting.
lazyfisherman, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3But did they put it on YouTube? (Edit) YES THEY DID!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7aTt52Oisc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Z22QuEXnE&
PATSCRU, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3the only robot band that matters. These bedroom players can do whatever they want, they aren't coming anywhere near playing in a 3 story high video pyramid.
coreyb, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2Link to a video of The Trons and their creator.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUUdFXwAYRs

(Not Rick Astley...)
Kflo, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2Cool, but Captured by Robots is cooler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyOzcg7liVc&feature ...

Dawn and Drew FTW!
TwistyMcFister, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2#1 on the INTERWEBS!?!?!????
fxu1989, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2Because comments have a lot to do for an article reaching to the homepage...
humboldt79, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2Still not as cool as that Star Trek band Warp 11.

www.warp11.com
phaseblue, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2New Zealand? Robot band? And this isn't Flight of the Conchords?

"The Humans Are Dead" - http://youtube.com/watch?v=B1BdQcJ2ZYY
Yage2006, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2That was terrible.
Puppetfunk, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2Chuckie Cheese did it First.
username7410, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Very annoying!
random42, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1That starts off really odd.
I have always liked Maywa Denki's Knockman Family
http://www.kennedy-center.org/giftshop/html/itemDe ...
BigBadaboom, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Maywa Denki may be ingenious, but I found the Trons a lot more listenable.
datagod, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1The Bots are pretty good too...
http://www.thebots.net/
thestranger, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1Man, I haven't seen CBR in years, and I completely forgot about him...
clarient, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Too bad he didn't program them to play anything good.
chaos7, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1creative....but the song sucks
JP42, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Now the recording industry can cut out those pesky artists!
koenigje, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1I could complain about it, but I think I would rather reply to your comment and agree with you.
nem0, on 06/30/2008, -0/+0I thought the Mili Vanili was the original robot band.
Floomdesk, on 06/30/2008, -1/+1thank you very mucho!
inactive, on 06/30/2008, -4/+0Daft punk are fags with fruityloops.
vw2005, on 06/30/2008, -10/+3Ok ... so I finally get to say this....

"Why's this on the front page with 71 diggs and 0 comments?? .... Someone should complain"
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