Riley The Robot

• Instrument:
• Keyboard, sound FX, computer, voice
• Special Skillz:
• You name it — she’ll download it
• Grand Prize Winner:
• Thelonious Sudoku Tournament

Riley The Robot gets more joy out of creative expression than other machines you’ve gotten to know in your life, and most of the humans too. Her passion for music and rhyming is contagious, but don’t worry — she’s virus protected.
 
Initially manufactured to assemble Whatchama Gadgets for The Company in Factory #2,637, Riley quickly began dreaming of a more creative calling. She became known as the Singing, Dancing And Dreaming Robot to the other machines in the factory, who frankly thought she was a wee bit buggy and tried to avoid sharing files with her.
 
Far from being deterred from her art, Riley turned to the Source Of All True Knowledge — The Internet — to research her musical passions, eventually stumbling upon some synthesizer shareware and downloading it. Before long, Riley had reprogrammed the software to do far more than simple FM synthesis, including recording and playing back sounds, advanced physical modeling synthesis, creating advanced digital signal processing effects, and instantly identifying rhymes and near-rhymes for any word you could throw at her, real or imagined. She even learned, and then enhanced, the exquisitely crafted dance known to humankind as The Macarena.
 
Then Riley met The International Band Of Misunderstood Geniuses, and the rest, as they say, is history.
 
Click here to send Riley The Robot a message in the Forum. She usually responds wirelessly within 24 seconds, unless she’s offline for software updates and repairs.
 
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