{"id":22349,"date":"2016-02-19T12:46:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T20:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/three-armed-cyborg-drummer-is-the-killer-beat-machine-of-the-future"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:53:20","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:53:20","slug":"three-armed-cyborg-drummer-is-the-killer-beat-machine-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/three-armed-cyborg-drummer-is-the-killer-beat-machine-of-the-future","title":{"rendered":"Three-Armed Cyborg Drummer Is the Killer Beat Machine of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/three-armed-cyborg-drummer-is-the-killer-beat-machine-of-the-future.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seeking to \u201cpush the limits of what humans can do,\u201d researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a wearable robotic limb that transforms drummers into three-armed cyborgs.<\/p>\n<p>The remarkable thing about this wearable arm, developed at GT\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtcmt.gatech.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Music Technology<\/a>, is that it\u2019s doing a lot more than just mirroring the movements of the drummer. It\u2019s a \u201csmart arm\u201d that\u2019s actually responding to the music, and performing in a way that compliments what the human player is doing.<\/p>\n<p>The two-foot long arm monitors the music in the room, so it can improvise based on the beat and rhythm. If the drummer is playing slowly, for example, the arm will mirror the tempo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/three-armed-cyborg-drummer-is-the-killer-beat-machine-o-1760073399\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeking to \u201cpush the limits of what humans can do,\u201d researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a wearable robotic limb that transforms drummers into three-armed cyborgs. The remarkable thing about this wearable arm, developed at GT\u2019s Center for Music Technology, is that it\u2019s doing a lot more than just mirroring the movements of the drummer. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,42,6,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62796,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22349\/revisions\/62796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}