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Robotic Third Arm Turns Drummers Into Beat Machines | Popular Science - 2 views

  • This robot drum arm comes from Georgia Tech, and was originally designed as a way to help a drummer who had lost an arm.
  • Here, the drum arm augments an existing drummer. While the user in question is wearing a headband with sensors, that part of the project isn’t ready yet. Instead, the robot arm is drumming of its own accord, with some awareness of what the human is doing. It listens, and it plays along.
  • The robotic arm is smart for a few reasons. First, it knows what to play by listening to the music in the room. It improvises based on the beat and rhythm. For instance, if the musician plays slowly, the arm slows the tempo. If the drummer speeds up, it plays faster. Another aspect of its intelligence is knowing where it’s located at all times, where the drums are, and the direction and proximity of the human arms. When the robot approaches an instrument, it uses built-in accelerometers to sense the distance and proximity. On-board motors make sure the stick is always parallel to the playing surface, allowing it to rise, lower or twist to ensure solid contact with the drum or cymbal. The arm moves naturally with intuitive gestures because it was programmed using human motion capture technology.
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    Mechanic arm allows drummers to augment their playing. The arm's technology allows the arm to tune into what the human drummer is doing and follow along. Interesting technology that perhaps could find its way into other areas of music (the three handed piano player, or allowing people with one arm/hand to play instruments formerly difficult to play).
brady294

Atlanta Jazz Robots | Red Bull Music Academy Daily - 0 views

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    Sophie Weiner calls up Georgia Tech, where robots are making music with humans. In this amazing article we see a robot learning how to improvise with a live piano playing through listening to the chord and melody and matching in time.
Nancy Tella

Tresset robot artist: Artist engineers robots to make art and save his own sanity. - Sl... - 1 views

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    A fascinating article about the melding of man and machine to create art. Rather than be a detriment to human creativity, this article discusses how technology can actually enhance the creative process and ultimately the finished product.
gigirigi

Westworld is woke: Just like on the HBO show, technology is widening the gulf between h... - 1 views

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    An exploration into the 2016 series "Westworld." This published review draws parallels between the android "hosts" and "guests" featured on the show, and the class system and current political climate of the US. The idea of robot sentience, or "awakening" is used as an allegory to our own social awareness. I should add a minor spoiler warning, for those who haven't watched yet (but intend to).
courtneytrue

Our robotic overlords have written us a Christmas Carol! - 1 views

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    Article about what happened when an AI was shown a picture of a Christmas Tree and asked to write a song about it. You can listen to the hilarious result as well.
anonymous

Art & Technology Program at the Ohio State University - 2 views

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    This program at Ohio State encourages the intersection of technology and art. The school has a terrific bevy of resources and labs for the students to use in their creative work, CNC routers, 3D printers, high end graphic computers, robot labs, and electronic labs to name a few. The have a presentation on the link showing some of the work, take a look,
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    This is really cool...clearly universities are engaging in a lot of the exploration and experimentation around integrating art and technology. I am currently collaborating with a composer on a chamber music work that I would love to have incorporate a three dimensional visual aspect. We are working with a visual artists in Maine. Money is the only obstacle!
pfrobles

2015 ICP Infinity Awards: Photojournalism - Tomas van Houtryve - 1 views

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    Tomas Van Houtryve wants there to be a permanent visual record of the dawn of the drone age, the period in American history when America started outsourcing their military to flying robots. In order to create this record, Van Houtryve sent his own drone into American skies.
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