The robot can mimics a human drummer and improvise its own rhythms (Image: Georgia Institute of Technology)
Drum machines have done drummers out of a lot of work, so a robot percussionist might be expected to pile on the misery. But not Haile. Its developer, Gil Weinberg of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta claims it will help drummers rather than hinder them.
See a video of the drumming robot in action (.mov format).
Haile uses its wooden arms to play a Native American powwow drum, facing a human drummer and striking the opposite side of the…
