Wedding DJs everywhere should be worried about job security now that a new robot is on the scene. Shimi, an interactive musical companion developed by Georgia Tech's Center for Music Technology ...

Robots are generally presumed to be coming for our manual jobs, but lately it seems that even more creative endeavors aren’t safe from automation. Shimon the robot is a marimba-mashing musical ...

The smartphone docking station was upgraded to robot status today with the unveiling of a brainy speaker system at the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco.The robot, called Shimi ...

Engineers at Georgia Tech Center of Music built a robot that can play alongside musicians. The robot improvises beats and rhythms that match the music around it. Read more: Brendon Urie’s ...

Georgia Tech's Mason Bretan has built a robot that can not only play music, but is now learning how to compose its own tunes. Shimon is a four-armed, marimba-playing droid that draws upon its vast ...

Engineers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a marimba-playing robot that writes, performs its own musical compositions.

Robots aren't taking over the planet yet, but they are doing jobs in more and more places: hospitals and offices, movie sets and battlefields. They're making a mark in the world of music, as well.

Although many people might remember the recorder as just a simple instrument from their introductory music classes, it can nevertheless produce rich and varied melodies in the hands of a virtuoso l… ...

The competition begins Friday with more than 500 humanoid robots in 280 teams from 16 countries, including the U.S., Germany ...