Talay Robot Takes Your Tweets And Writes Them [Sony Music's London HQ Hosts Robot-Driven Hard Copy Twitter Archive]

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It’s the combination of things that so often makes for exciting gadget news, and today we’ve got the combination of two strange things via Sony Music: a combination of Twitter and robotics that they’re calling the Talay Robot.

If you send a tweet out to @talayrobot, something interesting will happen out at the London headquarters of Sony Music. Upon receiving your tweet, an ST robotics arm will fire up and write your sent tweet onto a whiteboard, and the entire process will be put on video. Within minutes, the video will then be sent to you of a robot writing your tweet onto a whiteboard, and the whole thing will be done to the music of Sony’s own Talay Riley, more specifically, Riley’s “Sergeant Smash” song.

Several videos have been released on this–you’ll find at least one out at the via link–and it’s a strange sort of combination here. Clearly, it’s a promotional stunt. But it’s an interesting enough idea, and certainly exciting in its way to watch a Twitter-driven robot write out your tweets on a big whiteboard to music.

Of course, it also leaves folks like those crazy kids out at 4Chan to have some fun, as one video featured a tweet comprised of nothing but the letter “F” and the letter “U” repeated about twenty odd times (watching a robot write “Fuuuuuuuu” for an extended amount of time is funny for the first few letters, then kind of sad when you realize that it can’t get the joke and stop on its own.

But watching another video express that one should never send a human to do a machine’s job, however, felt like poetic justice following the big “Fuuuuu” tweet.

Still though, combining robotics and social networking produces both funny video and an interesting idea, so kudos to Sony Music for putting it out there, even if they did likely just do it to hawk Talay Riley music.

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