Teaching Overview
Learning Points
- Pianists practice for thousands of hours to improve their technical ability.
- Engineers in Tokyo, Japan have invented a robotic glove that moves the wearer’s fingers for them, training them to play more quickly.
- Researchers found that finger speed increased 30 percent after using the glove for 30 minutes.
Curriculum Keywords
- robotics
- music
- technology
Spark a Discussion
- What does the robotic glove do?
- How did researchers test its effect on pianists?
- What other activities might benefit from this kind of training?"
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Credits
- Shinichi Furuya et al., Surmounting the ceiling effect of motor expertise by novel sensory experience with a hand exoskeleton. Science Robotics, 10, eadn3802 (2025). DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.adn3802
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