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 maestro ...

Moritz Simon Geist started tinkering to fill a gap. “I want to have electronic music… where you can walk inside it and have this LSD experience.” “There are a lot of projects in media art that want to ...

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 ...

This special series focuses on important community issues, innovative solutions to societal challenges, and people and non-profit groups making an impact through technology. by Taylor Soper on Dec 31, ...

Jason Adair and Scott Namanny (aka Scottbot and Jason 2.0) have been performing together for over two decades. Musical Robot is their third musical venture, and part of a long tradition of ...

BROOKLYN, New York — Dozens of robotic band members will join jazz guitarist Pat Metheny on his next international tour. It’s the same backup band that accompanied him on his latest album, Orchestrion ...

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 ...

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, gains ...

The partnership with Capitol Music Group will give Bad Robot a new avenue to place music in its productions. One of the decade’s most accomplished and acclaimed directors, J.J. Abrams, is getting into ...

The intersection between robotics and art is becoming more pronounced. We've learned that robots are capable of making beautiful paintings, but they are also incredibly talented when it comes to ...

J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot is getting into the music business. By Mia Galuppo Bad Robot is getting into the music business. The J.J. Abrams-headed production outfit has launched indie music label, Loud ...