JAKARTA - Klungbot, a robot designed and prototyped (2010) by a group of creative and innovative graduates from Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB) It can play the angklung skillfully. In fact it can also play the carumba and cymbal!
All thanks to these 8 remarkable young inventors Nugroho Hari Wibowo, Nova
Mahendra Putra, Sigit Yudanto, Rafid Fikri, Andyaningrum Fauziah, Hilmy
Hanif, Nadya Komara Putri dan Adam Yanuro.
In their effort to conserve the beauty of traditional music, they have in fact invented 2 other robots; V Rumba (April-September 2014) and Cymbot (September-November 2014). Their hope is to have these robots and Klungbot playing ensemble traditional musical instruments automatically. They are planning to have them connected to the keyboard or kinect sensor to enable these robots to play musical arrangement.
Under a close supervision of Dr Eko
Mursito Budo, the team had successfully pattern four of these angklung robots and as well as acoustic analysis angklung. This innovation is enclosed in ITB Innovation Move
in order to be able to help guide musician to get to know more of angklung music arrangement. Beside the team's mission to marry traditional music and technology, the team's vision is cultivate and instil the love of cultural herritage of Indonesia.
Bravo Indonesia!
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