What does an array of seemingly random items — a coffee cup, a tennis ball, a fire extinguisher — have in common? What might such objects, if they could speak, or even sing, have to say?

A tech demo with an unusual twist by Axis Communications , a Swedish company best known as a global industry leader within video surveillance, offers one answer to this curious question. To show off its AI-powered cameras and analytics software — which can be trained to recognise almost any object and trigger instant responses — the company arranged a stunt to turn mundane objects into musical cues. The Object Detection Orchestra shows off Axis' AI-powered cameras and analytics software. Credit: Axis Communications

The resulting performance is a stirring rendition of Richard Strauss’s Also Sprach Z

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