Sony researchers develop robotic exoskeleton that helps pianists break through performance plateaus, achieving significant speed improvements in just 30 minutes.

Shinichi Furuya and his team at Sony CSL found that a therapeutic robotic hand exoskeleton also increases the dexterity of expert pianists.

A team of roboticists at Sony Computer Science Laboratories Inc. and the NeuroPiano Institute, in Kyoto, reports that a robotic exoskeleton strapped to the top of a piano player's hand allowed it to control the player's fingers during speed exercises,