When a group project goes really well, you and your classmates bounce ideas off one another, put all of your individual strengths together, and produce something much better than any of you could have made working solo. Many creative people, including artists, musicians, chefs, and kids in the classroom, are adding robots to group projects—and finding they do some of their best work this way.
Shimon Can Swing
Scientists at the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT) are setting up some cool musical interactions between humans and robots. GTCMT’s Robotic Drumming Prosthesis allows drummers who have lost an arm to perform with two drumsticks held by the artificial arm. One is controlled by the drummer’s movements, and the other by a machine that “listens” to the music and drums along with it.
