Music meets robotics: Gibson have announced the Robot Guitar. Integrated electronics and motorized mechanics allow this instrument to automatically tune itself in various configurations.
Some might call it the lazy man’s guitar, but every cover-playing guitarist will find it to be pure bliss. It will allow them to only carry one guitar with them instead of a set of differently-tuned instruments. Or, for those of us who couldn’t afford a set of guitars, it will practically eliminate the gaps between songs, used for re-tuning the instrument.
A limited first run is will be available in ‘Select stores’ (a whole bunch in the US, but only few in Europe and the other continents), on December 7th. It will only enter ’series’ production in late 2008.