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Guitarists, your Days are Numbered

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the funk-machines dept.

spackbace writes "Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a mechanical guitar playing robot, named the Crazy J. The guitar player is composed of two mechanical systems that interact to play a range of 29 musical notes. A plucking mechanism with six independently controlled picks is mounted over the body of the guitar and a fingering mechanism with an array of 23 fingertips is mounted over the first four frets of the fingerboard."

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  1. I for one... by myowntrueself · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new guitar playing overlords.

    Oh wait.. wasn't that Jimmy Hendrix?

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  2. where did they get the fingertips from? by hobotron · · Score: 5, Funny


    I suppose they ordered 23 cups of Wendy's Chili?

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  3. Re:No, no, no! by Mr.Progressive · · Score: 5, Funny

    No Stairway! Denied!

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  4. Indian Guitarists? by skingers6894 · · Score: 5, Funny

    This reminds me of the "programmer's days are numbered" stories - turns out they just got outsourced to India...