That's what I was thinking. That would require electrical motor control of the blades. Maybe turbine generator for power source. I would imagine this kind of pulsing would cause severe fatigue on the parts if they scale up too large.
The parts will cycle back and forth exactly as much as they would in a traditional helicopter, and there are fewer comparatively small parts. It would likely be stronger and more fatigue resistant than current methods of controlling blade pitch. We can program the motor to change torque as smoothly as we want.