Earlier this month, the Italian city of Pisa held the First International Festival of Robotics. During the festival, a robot did something incredible at Pisa's Verdi Theater. It lifted a baton and conducted the Lucca Philharmonic orchestra. The orchestra featured the famous Italian singer Andrea Bocelli. The robot is named YuMi from the phrase You and me. It learned all of the movements necessary from Andrea Colombini, the orchestra's usual conductor. Colombini held the robot's arms while the orchestra practiced so that the computer could memorize the correct movements.
Title: Robot Leads Orchestra in Performance
Content: <div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/2123/robot_conduector.m4a' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Robot Leads Orchestra in Performance' data-article-id='2641'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='9688'>Earlier this month, the Italian city of Pisa held the First International Festival of Robotics.</span> <span data-start-time='9688' data-end-time='17375'>During the festival, a robot did something incredible at Pisa's Verdi Theater.</span> <span data-start-time='17375' data-end-time='24188'>It lifted a baton and conducted the Lucca Philharmonic orchestra.</span> <span data-start-time='24188' data-end-time='46750'>The orchestra featured the famous Italian singer Andrea Bocelli.</span> <span data-start-time='46750' data-end-time='53333'>The robot is named YuMi from the phrase You and me.</span> <span data-start-time='53333' data-end-time='63042'>It learned all of the movements necessary from Andrea Colombini, the orchestra's usual conductor.</span> <span data-start-time='63042' data-end-time='73021'>Colombini held the robot's arms while the orchestra practiced so that the computer could memorize the correct movements.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' 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