The Detroit Symphony Orchestra had a change of pace on Tuesday when, instead of being conducted by their original leader, a robot made its way on the stage.

Asimo, which stands for Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, a 4-foot-3-inch Honda robot, began conducting the orchestra in a performance of “The Impossible Dream” from “Man of La Mancha” after politely saluting the audience.

“Hello everyone,” said the white robot, according to the Guardian.

Although the performance was extraordinary because it was conducted by a robot, the musical performance, critics say, was definitely ordinary because, at one point, the robot couldn’t respond to the musicians’ actions and made them lose their rhythm.

“At one point there was a retard - the music slowed down. Asimo‘s gesture wasn't very clear to the orchestra and they fell out of time with him. A human would have adapted to that and fixed it right away,” said Larry Hutchinson, a bass player with the orchestra, as the Guardian reported.

The Honda and Co. crew has been working since 1986 to create a humanoid robot. The robot has been taught how to speak, walk, run, climb stairs and, after Tuesday, how to conduct.

Although he managed to do very well at this new task, it turned out that he’s robot after all.

Leonard Slatkin, who will become the orchestra’s music director in September, is not worried about losing his job to a robot.

“I'm really not too worried about the competition. It's a very sweet and adorable machine, but that's all it is. There's not going to be an academy where robots train to be conductors,” said Slatkin.