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The Song Moved the Robot

Audio deep dive into the Karaoke Coup: a music model in a robot harness, the Conductor that translated its songs, and the control problem that followed.

Companion to article: Song Moved The Robot

The Song Moved the Robot
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NotebookLM Studio overview generated from the article and the frozen experiment traces — the OpenRouter free-model census, the Lyria C1/C2/C2b runs, the Conductor field notes, and the matched-transcript grounder replay receipts.

Correction note — 16 August 2026: the text article was updated after we noticed a buried trace detail: Lyria emitted a schema-valid JSON argument object inside one generated song. This audio overview predates that correction and therefore preserves the earlier, too-categorical wording about Lyria not speaking JSON.

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