A robotic hand exoskeleton that can move fingers faster than they can naturally is able to help expert pianists when they hit a plateau by playing even faster. Robotic exoskeletons have long been used to rehabilitate people that can no longer use their hands through injury or disease, but using them to improve the abilities of able-bodied people has been less well explored.
Now, Shinichi Furuya at Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo, Japan and his colleagues have found that a robotic exoskeleton can improve the finger speed of trained pianists by around 30 per cent after a single 30 minute training session.
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