Piano player bot tickles the ivories in Taiwan

If you dig old-school player pianos, how about a pair of robotic hands that plays keyboard? Visitors to the ongoing Taipei International Robot Show (TIROS) are getting an eyeful of a number of quirky robots, including a robot that uses 10 fingers to play tunes on a keyboard. The bot is the work of Taiwan's Hiwin Technologies and can play complex melodies with its multiple digits. Hiwin makes ball screws and components such as linear motors, which were used in the keyboard player. Hiwin reportedly said its player is the first to use 10 fingers to tickle the ivories. However, it seems to be less sophisticated than WABOT 2, a humanoid musician developed in Japan over a quarter-century ago.