Eric Singer of LEMUR, League of Electric Musical Urban Robots, talks a bit about the motivation that helped spawn the Mod Bots. LEMUR doesn't try to make robots that play instruments like humans at all - logically, they should play more robotic instruments in a more robotic way.

Get a load of the Guitar Bot's theme song as heard in this video. That way, if you hear it out on the street, you'll be able to escape its metallic claws that aim to shred you up like a minor diminished scale.