Heidi Klum will no longer be the spokesperson for the Guitar Hero: Metallica commercials. She has been replaced by four famous college basketball coaches. But if you think the ad is just the same ol' Risky Business inspired scene, stick around till the end...

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Do you fail at Guitar Hero? Can't beat TTFAF on expert? Perhaps you should get yourself a Cythbot and no, it doesn't use the force.

The Cythbot is comprised of a camera for vision pneumatic fingers for playing the popular video game series Guitar Hero.

So why make a perfect Guitar Hero player? To show off what the company is capable of doing.

So far the bot has managed to hit 98%, one percent higher than one of the best human players in the world. The problem is that the fingers are...

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We've seen a lot of Guitar Hero bots in our time, but we're pretty certain that Mechanized Rock's take on shredding automatons is something special. The system -- dubbed DeepNote -- actually watches the on-screen action with "eyes" that it uses to analyze notes, which the bot then plays in real-time. Using photodiodes aimed at the screen, the components pick up changes in light within eight nanoseconds, then convert that information to brazen, parent-shocking, full-throttle rock n' roll. ..."

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