Sony’s unusual robotic hand exoskeleton won’t make you a skilled gamer, but it will help musicians, especially pianists, learn to play even faster by moving their fingers for them. The research team discovered that the wearable improved the finger speed of trained pianists after a single 30-minute training session.
This robotic exoskeleton is capable of raising and lowering each finger individually, up to four times a second, using a separate motor attached to the base of each finger. Researchers recruited 118 expert pianists to test the device, all of whom had played since before they had turned 8 years old and for at least 10,000 hours. They were asked to practice a piece for two weeks until they could improve no more. The pianists then received a half hour training session with the exoskeleton, which moved the fingers of their right hand in different combinations of simple and complex patterns, either slowly or quickly.
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I’m a pianist, but I [injured] my hand because of overpracticing. I was suffering from this dilemma, between overpracticing and the prevention of the injury, so then I thought, I have to think about some way to improve my skills without practicing,” said Shinichi Furuya, Researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo.
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