If you needed further proof that we're quickly approaching the day when robots will outperform humans in all our endeavors, you may want to turn your attention to a tech demo for the Guitar Hero-playing "Cythbot", which we've posted after the jump. Using a light-measuring camera and six pneumatic "fingers", the Cythbot can strum its way through Guitar Hero's more difficult songs with terrifying accuracy -- check out the Expert run through Living Color's "Cult of Personality" in the embedded video.
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It's a shame this poor robot wastes it's time on Guitar Hero when everyone else has moved on to Rock Band and Rock Band 2... Proof enough that machines ARE NOT superior to most people.
Instead of wasting time playing games and posting on a gaming blog, why aren't you out there curing cancer yourself? Stop depending on robots and robot manufacturers!
Seriously, robots like this will be putting the automotive manufacturing factory workers of tomorrow out of work, assuming that they still have companies to work for in the future.
And playing Guitar Hero on their Robots Local 186 contract mandated coffee breaks.
I recently saw a video in which a robot plays The Flight of the Bumblebee on a Clarinet very quickly. It was impressive, but it squeaked really bad two or three times. TAKE THAT, ROBOTS!
wouldn't it have been WAY easier and cheaper to just wire/solder connections to where the buttons are instead of this complicated robot arm thing? You could probably just enter a string of timings and program 100% perfects for every song so you don't need the camera, maybe strip the guitar to the bare electronic minimum and have a little usb box that connected to system of choice, a memory card/flash chip to store songs or add new ones.
And this is why Guitar Hero kinda sucks. It takes no imagination or creativity at all. It's just memorizing a series of button pushes, and once you've done that you've mastered the game.
A monkey could learn to be good at Guitar Hero, if given a piece of fruit after repeating the proper button sequence.
