Synchronously learning with the help of an exoskeleton.

The next step of teaching.

There is something curious about learning, we always thought that learning was basically observing, trying to repeat, making mistakes, adjusting and evolving over time, that's how it is with music, sports, education, any physical skill. Only this process has a huge limitation, it depends on vision and you are not always enough, now imagine a different situation, two violinists are playing together, they are not looking at each other well or they are talking, but they still start playing more synchronized, more precise, more aligned, as if one is feeling the other and in a way that is exactly what is happening.

Researchers from the University of Gent, together with the university biomedical campus of Rome, created an exoskeleton system that physically connects two people, it is not just motion capture, it is an exchange of sensation, when one moves, the other feels it and when the movements do not coincide, the system itself corrects by pushing both towards an intermediate point, almost like an invisible teacher guiding the body.

And the most interesting thing is that the musicians did not even know that they were connected and they still improved, this completely changes the logic of learning, because it stops being something that you understand and becomes something that your body absorbs directly, without translation, without conscious trial and error. It's almost like jumping stages and then it starts to be disturbing to think how far this can go, because it does work with music, it works with surgery, it works with sports, it works with any skill that depends on movement.

Now imagine someone learning something complex without needing to spend years practicing, just adjusting the body until it falls into the pattern, the question here is not even technological, it is almost philosophical. If a skill can be transmitted in this way, what does it still mean to learn? And when machines begin to understand and replicate human movements, the next step is simple, start operating alone in the world.