Cybernetic Third Arm Makes Drummers Even More Annoying

A few years ago, we wrote about this cybernetic arm that Georgia Tech professor Gil Weinberg developed for a drummer who had his right arm amputated. This was cool enough by itself, but back in 2014, Weinberg was already thinking about the next step: "robotic synchronization technology could potentially be used in the future by fully abled humans to control an embedded, mechanical third arm." THE FUTURE IS NOW, and so are drummers that are 30 percent louder. It even seems to keep the beat properly most of the time, which is much better than what you can expect from a human drummer. From the human's perspective, the drumming arm is programmed to mostly just do its own thing, adapting to whatever you're doing.