I made a portable percussion robot "cabot."
Cabot plays cajon (wooden drum box).
Solo musicians (e.g. acoustic guitar player) can enjoy acoustic session with cabot any-time & any-where they want.

Cabot is a robot that attaches to cajon. Cajon is a drum box originally from Peru. Cabot has three arms, which hit different places on cajon's surface and generates different sounds(Kick, Snare, High-hat/ghost notes)

I made this robot because I wanted to enjoy jamming with a robot in an acoustic style. I like playing acoustic guitar, and knew it would be fun to play it with cajon. As cajon is a compact instrument, compared with a whole drum set, it is much easier to bring it with you or keep it in your house/room.

Cabot is controlled by Midi signals. I use Ableton Live on Mac to create rhythms. Also I use foot pedals to switch rhythm patterns while performing.

Beside Cabot, I want to make foot-pedals and smartphone apps (and I used to make some prototypes), but currently I'm concentrating just on developing Cabot. There are still some issues that I want to work on to improve its performance. I'm using foot-pedals and apps on market for now and they work well too.