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<\/p>\nIn the End – Linkin Park – Robot Drum Cover – YouTube
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Watch On <\/a><\/p>\n Humanoid robots can pick up objects, run, and even play sports (to a limited degree), but can they master the rhythm of a drum kit? Thanks to new research, they sort of can.<\/p>\n Robot Drummer is a humanoid robot avatar capable of \u201cexpressive, high-precision drumming\u201d, scientists at the Politecnico di Milano said in a new study uploaded July 15 to the preprint ArXiv<\/a> database.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This was a concept that was spontaneously conceived over coffee by co-authors Asaf Ali Shahid<\/a> and Loris Roveda<\/a>, they told Tech Explore<\/a>.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n “We were discussing how humanoid robots have become increasingly capable at a wide range of tasks, but rarely engage in creative and expressive domains,” Ali Shahid said. “That raised a fascinating question: what if a humanoid robot could take on a creative role, like performing music? Drumming seemed like a perfect frontier, as it’s rhythmic, physical, and requires rapid coordination across limbs.”<\/p>\n Robot Drummer isn\u2019t a robot itself; rather, it’s a simulation that uses the G1 Unitree robot as a model to build a system that a future humanoid robot could eventually use. The 3-D visualised G1 robot plays a color-coded drum kit.<\/p>\n In a video published on YouTube<\/a>, Robot Drummer is shown mimicking the drum beats to two well-known songs. There’s something a little off about the sound \u2014 perhaps to make the drumming more accessible to the ear. Its rendition of \u201cIn the end\u201d, by Linkin Park sounds just off the rhythm, while its attempt at “Roxanne” by the Police sounds more matched to the rest of the arrangement.<\/p>\n