The Rolling Stones Recreate 'Start Me Up' Video With Boston Dynamics Robot Dog 'Spot' (rollingstone.com) 33
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: 40 years ago the Rolling Stones released the song "Start Me Up" as part of their album Tattoo You. Then over the next four decades they built a reputation as a surprisingly tech-savvy band...
In 1994 they became the first major recording artists to broadcast live online using the experimental "Mbone" backbone/virtual network built on top of the Internet, and made one of their new songs available for download on an FTP site. In 1995 they licensed "Start Me Up" for an ad campaign promoting Microsoft's Windows 95 (the first version of Windows including a Start button). Now on the 40th anniversary of Tattoo You, the Rolling Stones have re-released the album with nine previously unreleased tracks from the same era, "recently completed and enhanced with additional vocals and guitar." And, according to Rolling Stone magazine, they've also collaborated with Boston Dynamics to recreate the "Start Me Up" music video "with the tech company's robot dogs....the first time Boston Dynamics have employed the technology to reenact a music video."
"Pout. Prance. Repeat," quips a headline at CNET. "Robo-dog Spot performs a rollicking Rolling Stones tribute..." noting there's also additional Spot robots standing in for the other members of the band. ("There's a Spot-Jagger, a Spot-Keith Richards, a Spot-Ronnie Wood and a Spot-Charlie Watts..." Though for some reason there's no robot for bassist Bill Wyman.)
It's being billed as a collaboration between Boston Dynamics and the Rolling Stones, and Friday the band's official Twitter account tweeted a highlight from the video — along with their reaction.
"Thank you to the Boston Dynamics team for making this happen."
In 1994 they became the first major recording artists to broadcast live online using the experimental "Mbone" backbone/virtual network built on top of the Internet, and made one of their new songs available for download on an FTP site. In 1995 they licensed "Start Me Up" for an ad campaign promoting Microsoft's Windows 95 (the first version of Windows including a Start button). Now on the 40th anniversary of Tattoo You, the Rolling Stones have re-released the album with nine previously unreleased tracks from the same era, "recently completed and enhanced with additional vocals and guitar." And, according to Rolling Stone magazine, they've also collaborated with Boston Dynamics to recreate the "Start Me Up" music video "with the tech company's robot dogs....the first time Boston Dynamics have employed the technology to reenact a music video."
"Pout. Prance. Repeat," quips a headline at CNET. "Robo-dog Spot performs a rollicking Rolling Stones tribute..." noting there's also additional Spot robots standing in for the other members of the band. ("There's a Spot-Jagger, a Spot-Keith Richards, a Spot-Ronnie Wood and a Spot-Charlie Watts..." Though for some reason there's no robot for bassist Bill Wyman.)
It's being billed as a collaboration between Boston Dynamics and the Rolling Stones, and Friday the band's official Twitter account tweeted a highlight from the video — along with their reaction.
"Thank you to the Boston Dynamics team for making this happen."
That's So Lame (Score:1)
More lame than tattoo butterflies...
So they found a replacement drummer? (Score:1)
Who's next, Kieth or Mick?
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It's "keef".
http://s392289553.websitehome.... [websitehome.co.uk]
Need to Spot-ify the Windows 95 Launch (Score:4, Informative)
Windows 95 Launch [youtube.com]
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Do they all have natural rhythm or what?
The worst part is knowing how insanely rich they all became after that.
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My eyes are bleeding, I cannot un-see that. How did I manage to live my whole life up until now without having seen that before? Oh gosh.
It's easy to see why they're the world's most valuable company.
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So, send Spot back to 1995 to terminate it?
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Developers!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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It made a grown many cry . . .
Trivial (Score:1)
Wrinkle rock (Score:1)
Just stop please.
Sy Snootles (Score:3)
They should have a put Jagger lips on the middle bot; it would look like Sy Snootles.
Finally (Score:3)
They've replaced Mick and the boys with robots!
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But everyone knows that Keith is really a Nokia candy bar phone...
next video to recreate (Score:1)
The opening sequence to Terminator 2
Re: next video to recreate (Score:2)
It is a future event, do you mean rehearse?
Mick Jagger or the robot? (Score:5, Funny)
I can't decide which is more creepy.
It's cute.... (Score:1)
Not that well done (Score:1)
They had the opportunity to sync the motions much closer. The robots can do it, but they didn't work on it enough.
C+ for effort.
Next up... (Score:2)
Very disarming (Score:1)
So Spot is no longer a good boy? (Score:2)
Bummer!
Pierson's Puppeteers, new from Boston Dynamics (Score:1)
It occurs to me that Boston Dynamics now has the technology to create robotic Pierson's Puppeteers from the Known Space universe of Larry Niven. And they should make them act like Pierson's Puppeteers as well. Watch them turn from danger and, if sane, run; if insane, kick an assailants heart out of their chest with their hind hoof. Now ya'll get to debate whether a sane or insane robotic puppeteer is better for humanity in general. I can see these things punishing C-Suite executives of crappy, egregari
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Absolutely *hilarious* (Score:2)
Bread and circuses (Score:2)
Just keep your eye on the dog, and ignore the man sneaking around about to pass the bad bill behind your back.
how much? (Score:2)
It must cost a fortune to get old famous guys to perform.
Watching that video... (Score:1)
That was cool... (Score:1)
But they're just lip-synching! (Score:1)
Come on, until the robots actually sing and play the instruments, I'm not (so) impressed.
Or should I say "worried"?