3-Armed Drummer Makes Becoming a Cyborg Look Pretty Cool

Envisioning a world in which humans become robotics-equipped cyborgs doesn't mean that all the enhancements will be Borg-like weaponry — there's room for some artistically-focused augmentations too

One of the first of these new creativity-inspired add-ons is a robotic drumming prosthesis, a device that turns a two-armed human drummer into a three-armed super-powered percussion machine

Developed by professor Gil Weinberg, the director of the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, the prosthetic device has two parts. The main prosthetic allows the wearer to directly control a drumstick through muscle signals sent using electromyography (EMG). Attached to that EMG-controlled mechanism is a smaller, robotic drumstick that taps out rhythms autonomously Read more...