If you want to move towards a particular drum the arm knows that because it recognizes the gestures and moves towards the arm and it's important that it will be there because the drums are there, you're playing with the drums and you feel like your own body is responding to you in a way. So the idea is that machines are not separated from humans, but they are becoming part of humans.

Professor Gil Weinberg

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We believe that if you augment humans with technology humans should be able to do much more, and we thought that music is a great medium to try that, music is something that is very timely, you really need to do things on the right millisecond. It's also very spatial, you need to go to the right places, so what better medium than to try the concept of a third arm that would augment you and allow you to do things that you couldn't before in music.

Professor Gil Weinberg

We let the arm move to different drums by following where the drummer is and where the arm is with sensors on the arm itself. Some of them are embedded to make it oriented correctly and some of them is from afar to know the whole environment in general, and that's where based on your gestures the arm can move to the different drums that you are interested in.

Professor Gil Weinberg