Move over Florence and the Machine. A band with a cyborg drummer and an improvising robot is coming to Brisbane.

Jason Barnes lost the lower part of his arm in an accident in 2012, seemingly leaving him with two options: give up on being a drummer or take lessons from Rick Allen, Def Leppard's famous one-armed skinsman.

Jason Barnes' robot prosthesis allows him to drum faster than an able-bodied drummer. Credit:Screenshot

Instead, he took a third option and created his own prosthetic drumming arm.

He eventually combined with Professor Gil Weinberg from the Georgia Institute of Technology's Centre for Music Technology to make a better version.