A study on musical conducting robots and their users

Brian Geuther, Autumn Breese, Yunfeng Wang

Abstract: Robots have started their adventure in the music conducting world recently, though music conducting is an art that takes years of experience and practice for human conductors. This paper presents our primary study on robotic conductors. This study includes the development of simple and affordable conducting robots, and the investigation of human-robot interaction for the specialized group of orchestra musicians. Our study has shown both encouraging and promising results for the application of conducting robots and robots' interaction with musicians.