Robot Turns Drummers into Three-Armed Beat Machines
From: Medical Design Technology - 02/22//2016
By: Sam Brusco

According to Georgia Tech professor Gil Weinberg, the third arm learns what
to play based on the music it hears, and improvises according to the tempo
and rhythm. Whether the musician plays slowly or quickly, the bionic arm will
adjust its speed.

Next on the list of powers to equip the arm with is an EEG headband.
Weinberg’s team is already testing one that can interpret a drummer’s pattern
of brain activity—they hope to pinpoint brain patterns that enable the arm’s
reaction upon imagining changing tempo or instruments.

Read the entire article and view a video (1:48) of Jason Barnes, a drummer
  with an upper limb amputation at:
http://www.mdtmag.com/blog/2016/02/robot-turns-drummers-three-armed-beat-machines

Links:
Wearable Robot Transforms Musicians into Three-Armed Drummers
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2016/02/17/wearable-robot-transforms-musicians-three-armed-drummers

Center for Music Technology
http://www.gtcmt.gatech.edu

Robotic Prosthesis Turns Drummer into a Three-Armed Cyborg
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2014/03/05/robotic-prosthesis-turns-drummer-three-armed-cyborg

Gil Weinberg
http://www.music.gatech.edu/content/gil-weinberg-0

Prosthetic Drummer Jason Barnes (video 7:49)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqxbpQigcWg

Cybernetic Third Arm Makes Drummers Even More Annoying
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/cybernetic-third-arm-makes-drummers-even-more-annoying