Sometimes you just don’t want to have to tune your guitar before you get on stage at a talent show to play Pink Floyd’s “Hey You” after telling the whole school you wrote it (sorry I just watched The Squid and the Whale). So you turn, as you would when faced with any pickle, to the world of robotics. How exactly can a robot help me tune my guitar?
Well, back in August we showed you a robot that would actually alter your guitar to produce a better sound. But we don’t all have the room for a high-tech fret dressing tool. Luckily, Gibson has a solution for you slacking shredders — their self-tuning guitars aren’t exactly new, but the latest one has some significant improvements.
This robotic guitar, called Dark Fire, has sensors in the head which detect key and adjust the strings automatically. Now it can tune in under a second, and an increased battery life means you’ll get about 500 tunings on a single charge. Gibson’s latest robo-ax will be available December 15th. No word on price yet, but similar models released last April were about $3,600.

Note: Headline should be read in the vein of Crossfire.

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If you think your guitar could be more perfect, it probably can be and only a robot can be so precise in the details. So let PLEK check it out for you. PLEK is a computerized robot, developed by the German company A+D Guitarrentechnologie GmbH in Berlin. It can measure the neck, fretboard, frets and can identify the differences within a thousandth of a millimeter. Those minor differences can be sanded off, and you’ll be able to get a much better tune on your guitar. It won’t improve your Guitar Hero game.

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