It really doesn’t though. Limited by zero upper body flexibility, all arm motions displayed here are not in any way organic and don’t surpass the capabilities of say, an orchestrion
It sounded super robotic but I wonder if that was a function of how it was programmed instead of the drumming capabilities of the robot.
That would make it a toy project, about forty years behind the state of the art.
http://pinktentacle.com/2008/04/video-wabot-2-android-plays-...
I feel like you could script that performance out manually and have it be the same.
I can only see ML being involved if the ML's interface was an over simplified model with all of the individual movements pre-scripted, i.e only allowing it to decide when to position limbs and onto which drums, but not how, which isn't much of an achievement. It smells of lies and hype. I could be wrong but either way the result hardly looks groundbreaking.