Jason Barnes (born 1990 in

Guam Guam (; ch, Guåhan ) is an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the Micronesia subregion of the western Pacific Ocean. It is the westernmost point and territory of the United States (reckoned from the geographic cent ...

) is an American

amputee Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on indiv ...

drummer with a

robotic arm A robotic arm is a type of mechanical arm, usually programmable, with similar functions to a human arm; the arm may be the sum total of the mechanism or may be part of a more complex robot. The links of such a manipulator are connected by joints ...

. Having started out a career with a music band, in 2012 Barnes lost one of his arms in an accident. After the amputation, Barnes created his own

prosthetic arm In medicine, a prosthesis (plural: prostheses; from grc, πρόσθεσις, prósthesis, addition, application, attachment), or a prosthetic implant, is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through trau ...

in an attempt to be able to play the drums; he was accepted into the drumming program at the Atlanta Institute of Music. Later on he started working with Gil Weinberg at the Georgia Institute of Technology Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines to develop a cyborg arm that enables him to play his drum kit. In 2015 he took part in the Geek Picnic festival in Moscow. He also took part at Robotronica in

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, Australia. Currently, the experience gathered around Barnes is helping create future technology for

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Jason Barnes
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Guamanian people American drummers American amputees Amputee musicians Cyborgs 1990 births Living people {{US-musician-stub