pinball1970
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- In this paper, we introduce Robot Drummer, a humanoid capable of expressive, high-precision drumming across a diverse repertoire of songs. We formulate humanoid drumming as sequential fulfillment of timed contacts and transform drum scores into a Rhythmic Contact Chain. To handle the long-horizon nature of musical performance, we decompose each piece into fixed-length segments and train a single policy across all segments in parallel using reinforcement learning.
Paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11498
Article https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-robotic-drummer-gradually-human-behaviors.html
Not my area of expertise at all, Robotics, programming but I do play drums. If you play the clip there is a lot wrong the with basic things the drummer is playing.
In the animation the drummer is stood, there no bass drum, is playing open hand - not usual.
If the animation is purely for illustration and not representative of the music then we can look at that also.
I cannot hear a separate BD, sounds like backing track.
Goes out of time.
Wrong rhythm and also goes "upside" down in Roxanne.
So I disagree with the abstract "high-precision drumming across a diverse repertoire of songs."
Opinion on what they have actually done from our high tech members will be welcome and also musicians who may be a little confused with the claims and results.
Article https://techxplore.com/news/2025-08-robotic-drummer-gradually-human-behaviors.html
Not my area of expertise at all, Robotics, programming but I do play drums. If you play the clip there is a lot wrong the with basic things the drummer is playing.
In the animation the drummer is stood, there no bass drum, is playing open hand - not usual.
If the animation is purely for illustration and not representative of the music then we can look at that also.
I cannot hear a separate BD, sounds like backing track.
Goes out of time.
Wrong rhythm and also goes "upside" down in Roxanne.
So I disagree with the abstract "high-precision drumming across a diverse repertoire of songs."
Opinion on what they have actually done from our high tech members will be welcome and also musicians who may be a little confused with the claims and results.