Ever get mad trying to figure out why your version of "Voodoo Child" doesn't sound like Jimi Hendrix? Help is at hand from what is described as the world's first robot guitar — an electric guitar that ...

Practice might be the way for human musicians to get to Carnegie Hall, but if you're a robot, it's not so tough -- as long as your programmers have given you the proper advantages. Meet the Z-Machines ...

Electromechanics join with embedded processing to produce an electric guitar that takes over the often laborious task of tuning and retuning. Aside from simplifying life for tin ears and those who ...

During a Chinese music festival, a humanoid robot named “Adam” graced the stage in what was half performance art and half marketing stunt — and did so while semi-disguised in a loose-fitting hoodie ...

Struggling with fingerpicking, or wrestling with the process of improving your general technique? If so, this latest feat of engineering might make your picking problems a thing of the past. Meet Olav ...

TOKYO — Musicians of the world are getting a new kind of artistic freedom with technology that eliminates the challenging chore of tuning. Robotics technology developed by German company Tronical Gmbh ...

As a once and forever 15-year-old boy, I find few words in the English language provide me with quite the same frisson as robot. Sure there's rocket, monkey, explosion—all highly ranked in my stunted ...

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PORTLAND, Ore. &#151 A second-generation self-tuning Robot Guitar was recently announced by Gibson Guitar Corp. (Nashville, Tenn.). Two new models are available–a Les Paul Studio Ltd. and an SG ...

Once a popular craze, most of the public has sold or stashed away their plastic video game instruments and forgotten the likes of Guitar Hero and Rockband. Having never been quite satisfied with his ...

WILLMAR, Minn. -- No matter how hard he tried, Pete Nikrin could not beat his friend when playing the popular music video game, Guitar Hero. Being a bit competitive, he's done the next best thing.

If you would like to play the guitar but perhaps at the current time do not have the required skills to hit all the correct guitar chords, you might be interested in a new device that has been ...