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Like an aspiring indie band, the Cybraphon has many instruments, plays them on an irregular schedule, likes to have an audience around it -- and obsesses over comments on its blog, the number of ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Artist Troy Rogers, known as Robot Rickshaw, tries on his new 3D-printed mask in his Institute of Psyborgology off Railroad Street in Duluth on Monday. DULUTH — It was an impulsive decision, almost, ...
When the inevitable robot invasion happens, we now know what the accompanying soundtrack will be — and we have to admit that it’s way less epic than the Terminator 2: Judgment Day theme. Unless you’re ...
NEW YORK – On paper, nothing about “Maybe Happy Ending” should work. The ambitious new musical, which opened Nov. 12 at the Belasco Theatre, follows two lonely robots as they take a road trip and fall ...