Musical robotics is a rapidly growing field, with dozens of new works appearing in the past half decade. This paper explores the foundations of the discipline and how, due to the ability of musical ...

In a fascinating blend of technology and artistry, researchers present a study in PeerJ Computer Science, showcasing how humanoid robots can collaborate seamlessly with human musicians during live ...

It’s sci-fi meets rom-com: “Her,” “The Last Five Years,” “50 First Dates,” and “Hadestown” combined, with some hints of “Black Mirror.” Plus, there’s a classic road trip and some great “robots ...

What if your digital assistant could battle rap? That may sound far-fetched, but Gil Weinberg, a music technologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has adapted a musical robot called Shimon to ...

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 like ...

The He Xuan humanoid robot band which performs on instruments including the piano, drums, guitar, and yangqin, has filled its schedule for the Lunar New Year shows in mid-February. Consisting of three ...

The musical *Maybe Happy Ending* tells the story of helper robots, designed to assist humans, who learn love, experience loss, and ultimately face farewell. Of course, emotions are not programmed into ...

Are we human, or are we… robots? “Maybe Happy Ending,” a Korean musical now making its Broadway debut, asks this exact question — or in some ways, asks the inverse. It examines what it means to be ...

Musical Robot, a two-person band, and pop-up artist Carter put a cybernetic twist on a sing-along standby, and the results are a blast (a laser beam blast, to be precise). A smiling cast of robots ...