{"id":13423,"date":"2025-04-16T13:44:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T20:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13423"},"modified":"2025-02-11T13:55:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:55:36","slug":"robotic-hand-exoskeleton-for-piano-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13423","title":{"rendered":"Robotic hand exoskeleton for piano players"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Expert musicians often experience a &#8220;ceiling effect,&#8221; in which their skill level plateaus after extensive training. Worse, practicing too much can lead to injury. So how can someone break through this issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xhn0UbR3hwU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Shinichi Furuya\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2464473-robotic-exoskeleton-can-train-expert-pianists-to-play-faster\/\">told New Scientist<\/a>. \u201cI was suffering from this dilemma, between overpracticing and the prevention of the injury, so then I thought, I have to think about some way to improve my skills without practicing.\u201d Recalling that his former teachers used to place their hands over his to show him how to play more advanced pieces, he wondered if he could achieve the same effect with a robotic hand.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Passive training using a robotic exoskeleton hand could help pianists overcome that ceiling effect, according to a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.adn3802\">paper<\/a>\u00a0published in the journal Science Robotics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2025\/01\/robotic-hand-helps-pianists-overcome-ceiling-effect\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/science\/2025\/01\/robotic-hand-helps-pianists-overcome-ceiling-effect\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.adn3802\">http:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.adn3802<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expert musicians often experience a &#8220;ceiling effect,&#8221; in which their skill level plateaus after extensive training. Worse, practicing too much can lead to injury. So how can someone break through this issue? Shinichi Furuya\u00a0told New Scientist. \u201cI was suffering from this dilemma, between overpracticing and the prevention of the injury, so then I thought, I have to think about some way to improve my skills without practicing.\u201d Recalling that his former teachers used to place their hands over his to&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=13423\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3uv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13425,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13423\/revisions\/13425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}