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Have you ever wondered what you could do if you had more than two arms? Gil Weinberg and his research team at Georgia Tech's Center for Music Technology have answered this question when it comes to making music. They have developed a robotic arm that effectively turns a drummer into a cyborg. Mounted on the musician’s shoulder, the arm detects the player’s movements and learns the rhythms being played, it allows for beats and rhythms that would otherwise be impossible for a human being to achieve.
“It’s a richer and more sophisticated rhythm because you can hit one more thing,” said Gil Weinberg, director of the Center for Music Technology at Georgia Tech. Weinberg is no stranger to bringing cybernetics and robotics togetherfor drumming, having developed a prosthetic drumming arm for an amputee drummer in 2014. Weinberg has been developing new ways to make music through robotics and artificial intelligence since 2006.
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